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[RFC PATCH 04/10] range-diff: zero out elements in "cost" first

From
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 9, 2021, 19:19 UTC
Message-ID
<RFC-patch-04.10-fe9dcb2d453-20211209T191653Z-avarab@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To
<RFC-cover-00.10-00000000000-20211209T191653Z-avarab@gmail.com>

Have the get_correspondences() function use CALLOC_ARRAY instead of looping over the newly allocated "cost" to zero out some of its elements.

The for-loop that zero'd out elements in "cost" wasn't the first loop in that function, nor did it cover all of its elements, but regardless of that this change doesn't affect its end-state. None of the for-loops touched the same items in the array, so we could have (and an earlier WIP version of this change did) moved the for-loop we're deleting to come first in get_correspondences().

This can be seen from a careful reading of this code added in in d9c66f0b5bf (range-diff: first rudimentary implementation, 2018-08-13) (as well as adding some printf-debugging) we'll set all elements in the in the "n * n" allocated array. That's "n = A+B" where "A" and "B" are the number of commits in our respective ranges.

So let's just allocate this with CALLOC_ARRAY(), and skip these two for-loops. Furthermore let's remove the early exit condition from compute_assignment() in favor of an assert that it must be called with "column_count > 1", then "get_correspondences()" can skip calling it when no further filling of the "a2b" and "b2a" arrays is needed.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
---
 linear-assignment.c |  7 +------
 range-diff.c        | 13 +++++--------
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
diff --git a/linear-assignment.c b/linear-assignment.c
index ecffc09be6e..0c0786a63b6 100644
--- a/linear-assignment.c
+++ b/linear-assignment.c
@@ -19,12 +19,7 @@ void compute_assignment(int column_count, int row_count, int *cost,
 	int *free_row, free_count = 0, saved_free_count, *pred, *col;
 	int i, j, phase;
 
-	if (column_count < 2) {
-		memset(column2row, 0, sizeof(int) * column_count);
-		memset(row2column, 0, sizeof(int) * row_count);
-		return;
-	}
-
+	assert(column_count > 1);
 	memset(column2row, -1, sizeof(int) * column_count);
 	memset(row2column, -1, sizeof(int) * row_count);
 	ALLOC_ARRAY(v, column_count);
diff --git a/range-diff.c b/range-diff.c
index 41003033752..b0ccb46ff4c 100644
--- a/range-diff.c
+++ b/range-diff.c
@@ -312,9 +312,9 @@ static void get_correspondences(struct string_list *a, struct string_list *b,
 	int *cost, c, *a2b, *b2a;
 	size_t i, j;
 
-	ALLOC_ARRAY(cost, st_mult(n, n));
-	ALLOC_ARRAY(a2b, n);
-	ALLOC_ARRAY(b2a, n);
+	CALLOC_ARRAY(cost, st_mult(n, n));
+	CALLOC_ARRAY(a2b, n);
+	CALLOC_ARRAY(b2a, n);
 
 	for (i = 0; i < a->nr; i++) {
 		struct patch_util *a_util = a->items[i].util;
@@ -346,11 +346,8 @@ static void get_correspondences(struct string_list *a, struct string_list *b,
 			cost[i + n * j] = c;
 	}
 
-	for (i = a->nr; i < n; i++)
-		for (j = b->nr; j < n; j++)
-			cost[i + n * j] = 0;
-
-	compute_assignment(n, n, cost, a2b, b2a);
+	if (n > 1)
+		compute_assignment(n, n, cost, a2b, b2a);
 
 	for (i = 0; i < a->nr; i++)
 		if (a2b[i] >= 0 && a2b[i] < b->nr) {
-- 
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  1. 00/10 range-diff: fix segfault due to integer overflowÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Dec 9, 2021
  2. 01/10 string-list API: change "nr" and "alloc" to "size_t"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Dec 9, 2021
  3. 02/10 range-diff.c: don't use st_mult() for signed "int"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Dec 9, 2021
  4. Jeff KingDec 10, 2021
  5. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonDec 10, 2021
  6. Jeff KingDec 10, 2021
  7. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonDec 10, 2021
  8. Phillip WoodDec 10, 2021
  9. Jeff KingDec 14, 2021
  10. Johannes SchindelinDec 10, 2021
  11. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonDec 10, 2021
  12. Johannes SchindelinDec 11, 2021
  13. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonDec 12, 2021
  14. Jeff KingDec 14, 2021
  15. 03/10 range-diff.c: use "size_t" to refer to "struct string_list"'s "nr"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Dec 9, 2021
  16. 05/10 linear-assignment.c: split up compute_assignment() functionÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Dec 9, 2021
  17. 04/10 range-diff: zero out elements in "cost" firstÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Dec 9, 2021
  18. 06/10 linear-assignment.c: take "size_t", not "int" for *_countÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Dec 9, 2021
  19. 07/10 linear-assignment.c: convert a macro to a "static inline" functionÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Dec 9, 2021
  20. 08/10 linear-assignment.c: detect signed add/mul on GCC and ClangÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Dec 9, 2021
  21. Jeff KingDec 10, 2021
  22. 09/10 linear-assignment.c: add and use intprops.h from GnulibÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Dec 9, 2021
  23. 10/10 linear-assignment.c: use "intmax_t" instead of "int"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Dec 9, 2021
  24. Jeff KingDec 10, 2021
  25. 0/5 range-diff: fix segfault due to integer overflowÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Dec 10, 2021
  26. 1/5 range-diff: zero out elements in "cost" firstÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Dec 10, 2021
  27. Jeff KingDec 14, 2021
  28. 2/5 linear-assignment.c: split up compute_assignment() functionÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Dec 10, 2021
  29. Jeff KingDec 14, 2021
  30. 3/5 linear-assignment.c: take "size_t", not "int" for *_countÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Dec 10, 2021
  31. Jeff KingDec 14, 2021
  32. 4/5 range-diff.c: rename "n" to "column_count" in get_correspondences()Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Dec 10, 2021
  33. Jeff KingDec 14, 2021
  34. 5/5 range-diff: fix integer overflow & segfault on cost[i + n * j]Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Dec 10, 2021
  35. Jeff KingDec 14, 2021
  36. Johannes SchindelinDec 10, 2021
  37. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonDec 10, 2021
  38. Philip OakleyDec 21, 2021
  39. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonDec 21, 2021
  40. Johannes SchindelinDec 22, 2021
  41. Jeff KingDec 22, 2021
  42. Philip OakleyDec 24, 2021
  43. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonDec 24, 2021
  44. Philip OakleyDec 24, 2021

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