Re: [PATCH 1/5] diff --color-moved-ws: fix double free crash

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On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 10:55 AM Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The solution is to store the ws_delta in the array of potential moved
> blocks rather than with the lines. This means that it no longer needs
> to be copied around and one block cannot overwrite the ws_delta of
> another. Additionally it saves some malloc/free calls as we don't keep
> allocating and freeing ws_deltas.

Another solution would be to duplicate the copy-arounds, that it only
fixes the double free, but having another layer of abstraction
(moved block vs line) makes sense as then we don't need to copy
it forward.

With this patch applied the diff as mentioned works and having the
ws deltas with the blocks instead of the

>
> Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>



>  static void pmb_advance_or_null_multi_match(struct diff_options *o,
[...]
>         for (i = 0; i < pmb_nr; i++) {
>                 if (got_match[i]) {
>                         /* Carry the white space delta forward */

I would think this comment is obsolete as well with this patch?

With or without that nit addressed, this patch is
Reviewed-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx>



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