From: Thomas Rast
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 19:35:09 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] commit-slab: document clear_$slabname()
Message-ID: <87txevdms2.fsf@thomasrast.ch>
In-Reply-To: <20131125202409.GO4212@google.com>
Jonathan Nieder writes:
> Thomas Rast wrote:
>
>> + *
>> + * - void clear_indegree(struct indegree *);
>> + *
>> + * Free the slab's data structures.
>
> Tense shift (previous descriptions were in the present tense, while
> this one is in the imperative).
>
> More importantly, this doesn't answer the questions I'd have if I were
> in a hurry, which are what exactly is being freed (has the slab taken
> ownership of any memory from the user, e.g. when elemtype is a
> pointer?) and whether the slab needs to be init_ ed again.
>
> Maybe something like the following would work?
[...]
Ok, I see that while I was procrastinating, you sorted this out and
Junio merged it to next.
Thanks, both.
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Thomas Rast
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