Re: [PATCH 1/2] tree-diff: fix leak when not HAVE_ALLOCA
Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@gmail.com> writes:
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> b8ba412bf7 (tree-diff: avoid alloca for large allocations, 2016-06-07)
> adds a way to route some bigger allocations out of the stack and free
> them through the addition of two conveniently named macros, but leaves
> the calls to free the xalloca part, which could be also in the heap,
> if the system doesn't HAVE_ALLOCA (ex: macOS).
Nicely spotted and analyzed. Thanks.
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>