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| From: | Paul Eggert |
| Subject: | Re: [PATCH 04/17] maint: zalloc → xzalloc |
| Date: | Wed, 12 Jan 2022 12:52:07 -0800 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.3.1 |
On 1/12/22 12:29, Eric Blake wrote:
The commit message claims they are all changed to xzalloc, but this one is changed to xcalloc.
Yes, the commit message should have said they were changed to xzalloc or xcalloc.
Calling xcalloc is better than multiplying and then calling xzalloc, as xcalloc catches and diagnoses multiplication overflow.
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