From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2025 16:32:50 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/14] hash: expose hash context functions to Rust
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?