From: Johannes Schindelin Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 23:36:08 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] get_shallow_commits: Avoid memory leak if a commit has been reached already. Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7v1wnr2twq.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Hi, On Sat, 25 Nov 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote: > I think you could pretend the commit->util field to be of some kind of > int and avoid the allocation altogether ;-). I actually thought about that, and found it too dangerous. But of course, since we need at least a 32-bit architecture, chances are very high that a pointer is castable to an int. Ciao, Dscho