From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2021 05:27:58 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] tree-diff: fix leak when not HAVE_ALLOCA
Message-ID: <xmqqpmt9um1t.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <20210916023706.55760-2-carenas@gmail.com>

Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón  <carenas@gmail.com> writes:

> 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.