Subject: bug#6789: propose renaming gnulib memxfrm to amemxfrm (naming collision with coreutils)

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 22:53:41 +0200

On 08/09/10 09:25, Bruno Haible wrote:

> The contents of the 'allocated' buffer is scratch, therefore malloc + free
> should be faster than realloc...
> 
> Also, the '3 * (lena + lenb)' guess is pessimistic; it is possible that
> it may return with ENOMEM when in fact strxfrm's real needs would not
> lead to ENOMEM.

Thanks again; I installed this:

* src/sort.c (compare_random): Use free/xmalloc rather than
xrealloc, since the old buffer contents need not be preserved.
Also, don't fail if the guessed-sized malloc fails.  Suggested by
Bruno Haible.
---
 src/sort.c |   11 +++++++++--
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/sort.c b/src/sort.c
index 084f4e3..3dc7ae0 100644
--- a/src/sort.c
+++ b/src/sort.c
@@ -2056,7 +2056,13 @@ compare_random (char *restrict texta, size_t lena,
           if (bufsize < guess_bufsize)
             {
               bufsize = MAX (guess_bufsize, bufsize * 3 / 2);
-              buf = allocated = xrealloc (allocated, bufsize);
+              free (allocated);
+              buf = allocated = malloc (bufsize);
+              if (! buf)
+                {
+                  buf = stackbuf;
+                  bufsize = sizeof stackbuf;
+                }
             }
 
           size_t sizea =
@@ -2074,7 +2080,8 @@ compare_random (char *restrict texta, size_t lena,
               bufsize = sizea + sizeb;
               if (bufsize < SIZE_MAX / 3)
                 bufsize = bufsize * 3 / 2;
-              buf = allocated = xrealloc (allocated, bufsize);
+              free (allocated);
+              buf = allocated = xmalloc (bufsize);
               if (texta < lima)
                 strxfrm (buf, texta, sizea);
               if (textb < limb)
-- 
1.7.2