Use the macro ALLOC_ARRAY to allocate an array. This is shorter and eaasier, as it automatically infers the size of elements. Patch generated with Coccinelle and contrib/coccinelle/array.cocci. Signeg-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@xxxxxx> --- run-command.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/run-command.c b/run-command.c index b5e6eb37c0..014b2165b5 100644 --- a/run-command.c +++ b/run-command.c @@ -452,7 +452,7 @@ static char **prep_childenv(const char *const *deltaenv) } /* Create an array of 'char *' to be used as the childenv */ - childenv = xmalloc((env.nr + 1) * sizeof(char *)); + ALLOC_ARRAY(childenv, env.nr + 1); for (i = 0; i < env.nr; i++) childenv[i] = env.items[i].util; childenv[env.nr] = NULL; -- 2.14.2