From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2025 17:41:32 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] t-reftable-basics: allow for `malloc` to be `#define`d
Message-ID: <xmqqjzb5mcdv.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <e842ea8c-4ead-49d0-a48b-0d5f8c4e7c0c@web.de>

René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> writes:

>> It is actually unnecessary to use those function pointers to
>> `malloc`/`realloc`/`free`, though: The `reftable` code goes out of its
>> way to fall back to the initial allocator when passing `NULL` parameters
>> instead. So let's do that instead of causing heap corruptions.
>
> Ugh.  That makes a lot of sense.  Sorry for the trouble! :-/

Thanks for a quick Ack.