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Re: [PATCH] factorize pack structure allocation

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TLTeemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
Date
Jun 25, 2008, 07:19 UTC
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<20080625071920.GA3307@mithlond.arda.local>
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Nicolas Pitre wrote (2008-06-24 18:58 -0400):
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> New pack structures are currently allocated in 2 different places
> and all members have to be initialized explicitly.  This is prone
> to errors leading to segmentation faults as found by Teemu Likonen.
> 
> Let's have a common place where this structure is allocated, and have 
> all members implicitly initialized to zero.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>

Because of time zone issues I didn't get a chance to check this until now. This fixes the segfault issue for me. Thanks!

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Message 4 of 5 in “factorize pack structure allocation”
  1. factorize pack structure allocationNicolas Pitre, Jun 24, 2008
  2. Jon LoeligerJun 24, 2008
  3. Junio C HamanoJun 25, 2008
  4. Teemu LikonenJun 25, 2008
  5. Andreas EricssonJun 26, 2008

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