Re: [PATCH 06/13] dir.c: always copy input to add_pattern()

>   b. Now that we don't need the original string to hang around, we can
>      get rid of the "filebuf" mechanism entirely, and just free the file
>      contents after parsing. Since files are the sources we'd expect to
>      have the largest pattern sets, we should mostly break even on
>      stuffing the same data into the individual structs.

> diff --git a/dir.c b/dir.c
> index d812d521b0..8308d167c8 100644
> --- a/dir.c
> +++ b/dir.c
> @@ -925,12 +925,7 @@ void add_pattern(const char *string, const char *base,
>  	int nowildcardlen;
>  
>  	parse_path_pattern(&string, &patternlen, &flags, &nowildcardlen);
> -	if (flags & PATTERN_FLAG_MUSTBEDIR) {
> -		FLEXPTR_ALLOC_MEM(pattern, pattern, string, patternlen);
> -	} else {
> -		pattern = xmalloc(sizeof(*pattern));
> -		pattern->pattern = string;
> -	}
> +	FLEX_ALLOC_MEM(pattern, pattern, string, patternlen);
>  	pattern->patternlen = patternlen;
>  	pattern->nowildcardlen = nowildcardlen;
>  	pattern->base = base;

> diff --git a/dir.h b/dir.h
> index b9e8e96128..c8ff308fae 100644
> --- a/dir.h
> +++ b/dir.h
> @@ -62,7 +62,6 @@ struct path_pattern {
>  	 */
>  	struct pattern_list *pl;
>  
> -	const char *pattern;
>  	int patternlen;
>  	int nowildcardlen;
>  	const char *base;
> @@ -74,6 +73,8 @@ struct path_pattern {
>  	 * and from -1 decrementing for patterns from CLI args.
>  	 */
>  	int srcpos;
> +
> +	char pattern[FLEX_ARRAY];
>  };