Merge branch 'jk/tighten-alloc'

Update various codepaths to avoid manually-counted malloc().

* jk/tighten-alloc: (22 commits)
  ewah: convert to REALLOC_ARRAY, etc
  convert ewah/bitmap code to use xmalloc
  diff_populate_gitlink: use a strbuf
  transport_anonymize_url: use xstrfmt
  git-compat-util: drop mempcpy compat code
  sequencer: simplify memory allocation of get_message
  test-path-utils: fix normalize_path_copy output buffer size
  fetch-pack: simplify add_sought_entry
  fast-import: simplify allocation in start_packfile
  write_untracked_extension: use FLEX_ALLOC helper
  prepare_{git,shell}_cmd: use argv_array
  use st_add and st_mult for allocation size computation
  convert trivial cases to FLEX_ARRAY macros
  use xmallocz to avoid size arithmetic
  convert trivial cases to ALLOC_ARRAY
  convert manual allocations to argv_array
  argv-array: add detach function
  add helpers for allocating flex-array structs
  harden REALLOC_ARRAY and xcalloc against size_t overflow
  tree-diff: catch integer overflow in combine_diff_path allocation
  ...

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/argv-array.c b/argv-array.c
index eaed47712b..5d370fa336 100644
--- a/argv-array.c
+++ b/argv-array.c
@@ -74,3 +74,14 @@ void argv_array_clear(struct argv_array *array)
 	}
 	argv_array_init(array);
 }
+
+const char **argv_array_detach(struct argv_array *array)
+{
+	if (array->argv == empty_argv)
+		return xcalloc(1, sizeof(const char *));
+	else {
+		const char **ret = array->argv;
+		argv_array_init(array);
+		return ret;
+	}
+}