use xcalloc() to allocate zero-initialized memory

Use xcalloc() instead of xmalloc() followed by memset() to allocate
and zero out memory because it's shorter and avoids duplicating the
function parameters.

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/builtin/clean.c b/builtin/clean.c
index 27701d2..1032563 100644 (file)
--- a/builtin/clean.c
+++ b/builtin/clean.c
@@ -621,8 +621,7 @@ static int *list_and_choose(struct menu_opts *opts, struct menu_stuff *stuff)
                                nr += chosen[i];
                }
 
-               result = xmalloc(sizeof(int) * (nr + 1));
-               memset(result, 0, sizeof(int) * (nr + 1));
+               result = xcalloc(nr + 1, sizeof(int));
                for (i = 0; i < stuff->nr && j < nr; i++) {
                        if (chosen[i])
                                result[j++] = i;

diff --git a/builtin/index-pack.c b/builtin/index-pack.c
index 8b3bd29..9ca0203 100644 (file)
--- a/builtin/index-pack.c
+++ b/builtin/index-pack.c
@@ -362,8 +362,7 @@ static void set_thread_data(struct thread_local *data)
 
 static struct base_data *alloc_base_data(void)
 {
-       struct base_data *base = xmalloc(sizeof(struct base_data));
-       memset(base, 0, sizeof(*base));
+       struct base_data *base = xcalloc(1, sizeof(struct base_data));
        base->ref_last = -1;
        base->ofs_last = -1;
        return base;

diff --git a/compat/mingw.c b/compat/mingw.c
index e9892f8..363a957 100644 (file)
--- a/compat/mingw.c
+++ b/compat/mingw.c
@@ -1226,8 +1226,7 @@ static int WSAAPI getaddrinfo_stub(const char *node, const char *service,
        else
                ai->ai_canonname = NULL;
 
-       sin = xmalloc(ai->ai_addrlen);
-       memset(sin, 0, ai->ai_addrlen);
+       sin = xcalloc(1, ai->ai_addrlen);
        sin->sin_family = AF_INET;
        /* Note: getaddrinfo is supposed to allow service to be a string,
         * which should be looked up using getservbyname. This is

diff --git a/pathspec.c b/pathspec.c
index 8043099..0be5edb 100644 (file)
--- a/pathspec.c
+++ b/pathspec.c
@@ -389,8 +389,7 @@ void parse_pathspec(struct pathspec *pathspec,
                if (!(flags & PATHSPEC_PREFER_CWD))
                        die("BUG: PATHSPEC_PREFER_CWD requires arguments");
 
-               pathspec->items = item = xmalloc(sizeof(*item));
-               memset(item, 0, sizeof(*item));
+               pathspec->items = item = xcalloc(1, sizeof(*item));
                item->match = prefix;
                item->original = prefix;
                item->nowildcard_len = item->len = strlen(prefix);