From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 06:17:01 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] diff-delta: use realloc instead of xrealloc
Message-ID: <7vhcpu4yzm.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.99.0705292252220.11491@xanadu.home>

Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> writes:

> On Tue, 29 May 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> Wasn't there a discussion around this exact issue when the
>> original patch was applied?
>
> Maybe, but I cannot remember it, not can I justify that xrealloc now.

Actually, the discussion was older than the patch.

    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/43766/focus=43783

And I myself suggested to use non x- variant of allocation
routines in diff-delta.c as the callers know how to handle near
oom condition ;-).