Re: [PATCH 3/7] merge-ort: add pool_alloc, pool_calloc, and pool_strndup wrappers

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> On 7/23/2021 8:54 AM, Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget wrote:
> > From: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
> >
> > We need functions which will either call
> >     xmalloc, xcalloc, xstrndup
> > or
> >     mem_pool_alloc, mem_pool_calloc, mem_pool_strndup
> > depending on whether we have a non-NULL memory pool.  Add these
> > functions; the next commit will make use of these.
>
> I briefly considered that this should just be the way the
> mem_pool_* methods work. It does rely on the caller knowing
> to free() the allocated memory when their pool is NULL, so
> perhaps such a universal change might be too much. What do
> you think?