From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 19:30:47 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 1/7] strbuf: remove unnecessary NUL assignment in xstrdup_tolower()
Message-ID: <xmqqo9ko68bc.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20180216184529.GA22189@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

>> (although the calloc() case is slightly different from mallocz()),
>> see: https://public-inbox.org/git/871shum182.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com/
>
> Hmm. I do think xmallocz is a bit more explicit instruction of "please
> NUL-terminate this for me" than xcalloc is. So I don't think it's
> inconsistent to say this one is OK, but the trailing-NULL one that you
> linked is not.

Yeah, I too thought "slightly different" was an understatement of
the week ;-).