convert trivial cases to FLEX_ARRAY macros
Using FLEX_ARRAY macros reduces the amount of manual
computation size we have to do. It also ensures we don't
overflow size_t, and it makes sure we write the same number
of bytes that we allocated.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
diff --git a/diff.c b/diff.c
index 2136b69..27d14a7 100644
--- a/diff.c
+++ b/diff.c
@@ -2607,12 +2607,9 @@
struct diff_filespec *alloc_filespec(const char *path)
{
- int namelen = strlen(path);
- struct diff_filespec *spec = xmalloc(sizeof(*spec) + namelen + 1);
+ struct diff_filespec *spec;
- memset(spec, 0, sizeof(*spec));
- spec->path = (char *)(spec + 1);
- memcpy(spec->path, path, namelen+1);
+ FLEXPTR_ALLOC_STR(spec, path, path);
spec->count = 1;
spec->is_binary = -1;
return spec;
