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[PATCH v4] maintenance: use calloc instead of malloc where possible

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Date
Dec 5, 2022, 16:12 UTC
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From: Seija <doremylover123@gmail.com>
We can avoid having to call memset by calling calloc directly
Signed-off-by: Seija doremylover123@gmail.com
---
    maintenance: use calloc instead of malloc where possible
    
    We can avoid having to call memset by calling calloc directly
    
    Signed-off-by: Seija doremylover123@gmail.com
Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-git-1390%2FAtariDreams%2Fcalloc-v4
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-git-1390/AtariDreams/calloc-v4
Pull-Request: https://github.com/git/git/pull/1390
Range-diff vs v3:
 1:  b5cfec60048 ! 1:  3cd6b1eab13 maintenance: use xcalloc instead of xmalloc where possible
     @@ Metadata
      Author: Seija <doremylover123@gmail.com>
      
       ## Commit message ##
     -    maintenance: use xcalloc instead of xmalloc where possible
     +    maintenance: use calloc instead of malloc where possible
      
     -    We can avoid having to call memset by calling xcalloc directly
     +    We can avoid having to call memset by calling calloc directly
      
          Signed-off-by: Seija doremylover123@gmail.com
      
 builtin/pack-redundant.c |  6 ++----
 remote.c                 |  4 ++--
 submodule.c              | 10 +++++-----
 xdiff/xutils.c           |  4 +---
 4 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
diff --git a/builtin/pack-redundant.c b/builtin/pack-redundant.c
index ecd49ca268f..0e184bb5212 100644
--- a/builtin/pack-redundant.c
+++ b/builtin/pack-redundant.c
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ static inline struct llist_item *llist_item_get(void)
 		new_item = free_nodes;
 		free_nodes = free_nodes->next;
 	} else {
-		int i = 1;
+		size_t i = 1;
 		ALLOC_ARRAY(new_item, BLKSIZE);
 		for (; i < BLKSIZE; i++)
 			llist_item_put(&new_item[i]);
@@ -61,9 +61,7 @@ static inline struct llist_item *llist_item_get(void)
 
 static inline void llist_init(struct llist **list)
 {
-	*list = xmalloc(sizeof(struct llist));
-	(*list)->front = (*list)->back = NULL;
-	(*list)->size = 0;
+	CALLOC_ARRAY(*list, 1);
 }
 
 static struct llist * llist_copy(struct llist *list)
diff --git a/remote.c b/remote.c
index 60869beebe7..475a1d18af0 100644
--- a/remote.c
+++ b/remote.c
@@ -2741,9 +2741,9 @@ void apply_push_cas(struct push_cas_option *cas,
 
 struct remote_state *remote_state_new(void)
 {
-	struct remote_state *r = xmalloc(sizeof(*r));
+	struct remote_state *r;
 
-	memset(r, 0, sizeof(*r));
+	CALLOC_ARRAY(r, 1);
 
 	hashmap_init(&r->remotes_hash, remotes_hash_cmp, NULL, 0);
 	hashmap_init(&r->branches_hash, branches_hash_cmp, NULL, 0);
diff --git a/submodule.c b/submodule.c
index 8ac2fca855d..015102a83d6 100644
--- a/submodule.c
+++ b/submodule.c
@@ -1458,14 +1458,13 @@ struct fetch_task {
  */
 static const struct submodule *get_non_gitmodules_submodule(const char *path)
 {
-	struct submodule *ret = NULL;
+	struct submodule *ret;
 	const char *name = default_name_or_path(path);
 
 	if (!name)
 		return NULL;
 
-	ret = xmalloc(sizeof(*ret));
-	memset(ret, 0, sizeof(*ret));
+	CALLOC_ARRAY(ret, 1);
 	ret->path = name;
 	ret->name = name;
 
@@ -1504,8 +1503,9 @@ static struct fetch_task *fetch_task_create(struct submodule_parallel_fetch *spf
 					    const char *path,
 					    const struct object_id *treeish_name)
 {
-	struct fetch_task *task = xmalloc(sizeof(*task));
-	memset(task, 0, sizeof(*task));
+	struct fetch_task *task;
+
+	CALLOC_ARRAY(task, 1);
 
 	task->sub = submodule_from_path(spf->r, treeish_name, path);
 
diff --git a/xdiff/xutils.c b/xdiff/xutils.c
index 9e36f24875d..c19bc441a96 100644
--- a/xdiff/xutils.c
+++ b/xdiff/xutils.c
@@ -98,12 +98,10 @@ void *xdl_cha_alloc(chastore_t *cha) {
 	void *data;
 
 	if (!(ancur = cha->ancur) || ancur->icurr == cha->nsize) {
-		if (!(ancur = (chanode_t *) xdl_malloc(sizeof(chanode_t) + cha->nsize))) {
+		if (!(ancur = (chanode_t *) xdl_calloc(1, sizeof(chanode_t) + cha->nsize))) {
 
 			return NULL;
 		}
-		ancur->icurr = 0;
-		ancur->next = NULL;
 		if (cha->tail)
 			cha->tail->next = ancur;
 		if (!cha->head)

base-commit: 805265fcf7a737664a8321aaf4a0587b78435184
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