Am 07.03.21 um 21:09 schrieb Junio C Hamano: > René Scharfe. <l.s.r@xxxxxx> writes: >> Anyway, what about this more targeted approach: > > It is a targetted approach to solve a different problem from the > original one. I like the solution and the resulting code, but I > also like the solution to the original problem, too ;-) We can have both. :) The semantic patch for correcting the argument order of xcalloc calls allows the one for using CALLOC_ARRAY to be simplified, as it doesn't have to do that normalization itself. I can't bring myself to introduce special macros for allocating a single object. Let's first make use what we already have. René