Re: [PATCH 09/14] hash: expose hash context functions to Rust

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Oct 29, 2025, 16:32 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqqzulacst.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <20251027004404.2152927-10-sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>

"brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> writes:

> +struct git_hash_ctx *git_hash_alloc(void)
> +{
> +	return malloc(sizeof(struct git_hash_ctx));
> +}

Not an objection, but this looked especially curious to me because it has been customary to use xmalloc() for a thing like this. Going forward, is our intention that we'd explicitly handle OOM allocation failures ourselves, at least in the Rust part of the code base?

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