While working on the skip_prefix series, I ended up grepping for: + strlen(" to find spots in need of skip_prefix. Of course, it turns up many other nasty ad-hoc calculations. Here's a short series that addresses a few. There are many more, but hopefully the first patch provides a tool that can help us in the future. [1/2]: strbuf: add xstrdup_fmt helper [2/2]: use xstrdup_fmt in favor of manual size calculations -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html