From: René Scharfe. <l.s.r@web.de>
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2021 16:10:26 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] Makefile/coccicheck: fix bugs and speed it up
Message-ID: <778c6cd8-b1c4-2a97-ab09-a926196ab0b0@web.de>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqft16914r.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>

Am 07.03.21 um 21:09 schrieb Junio C Hamano:
> René Scharfe. <l.s.r@web.de> 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