On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 07:23:13PM +0900, Junio C Hamano wrote: > This one was doing > > ptr = xmalloc(sizeof(*another_ptr)) > > and it was OK because ptr and another_ptr happened to be of the same > type. I wonder if we are making it safer, or making it more obscure > to seasoned C programmers, if we introduced a pair of helper macros, > perhaps like these: > > #define ALLOCATE(ptr) (ptr) = xmalloc(sizeof(*(ptr))) > #define CALLOCATE(ptr,cnt) (ptr) = xcalloc((cnt), sizeof(*(ptr))) I've often wondered that, too. It's the natural endgame of the ALLOC_ARRAY() road we've been going down. -Peff
