ref-filter: make 'ref_array_item' use a FLEX_ARRAY for refname

This would remove the need of using a pointer to store refname. Mentored-by: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com> Mentored-by: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr> Signed-off-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Karthik Nayak committed Jun 14, 2015 at 01:07 UTC 1958a6eb5498c8a5ac5ba908833cc862b28759f9
2 files changed +5 -4
ref-filter.c
+4 -3
@@ -847,8 +847,10 @@ static struct ref_array_item *new_ref_array_item(const char *refname,
847 const unsigned char *objectname,
848 int flag)
849 {
850 - struct ref_array_item *ref = xcalloc(1, sizeof(struct ref_array_item));
851 - ref->refname = xstrdup(refname);
850 + size_t len = strlen(refname);
851 + struct ref_array_item *ref = xcalloc(1, sizeof(struct ref_array_item) + len + 1);
852 + memcpy(ref->refname, refname, len);
853 + ref->refname[len] = '\0';
854 hashcpy(ref->objectname, objectname);
855 ref->flag = flag;
856
@@ -889,7 +891,6 @@ static int ref_filter_handler(const char *refname, const struct object_id *oid,
891 static void free_array_item(struct ref_array_item *item)
892 {
893 free((char *)item->symref);
892 - free(item->refname);
894 free(item);
895 }
896
ref-filter.h
+1 -1
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ struct ref_array_item {
32 int flag;
33 const char *symref;
34 struct atom_value *value;
35 - char *refname;
35 + char refname[FLEX_ARRAY];
36 };
37
38 struct ref_array {