reftable/record: improve semantics when initializing records

According to our usual coding style, the `reftable_new_record()`
function would indicate that it is allocating a new record. This is not
the case though as the function merely initializes records without
allocating any memory.

Replace `reftable_new_record()` with a new `reftable_record_init()`
function that takes a record pointer as input and initializes it
accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/reftable/record.h b/reftable/record.h
index fd80cd451d..e64ed30c80 100644
--- a/reftable/record.h
+++ b/reftable/record.h
@@ -69,9 +69,6 @@ struct reftable_record_vtable {
 /* returns true for recognized block types. Block start with the block type. */
 int reftable_is_block_type(uint8_t typ);
 
-/* return an initialized record for the given type */
-struct reftable_record reftable_new_record(uint8_t typ);
-
 /* Encode `key` into `dest`. Sets `is_restart` to indicate a restart. Returns
  * number of bytes written. */
 int reftable_encode_key(int *is_restart, struct string_view dest,
@@ -100,8 +97,8 @@ struct reftable_obj_record {
 /* record is a generic wrapper for different types of records. It is normally
  * created on the stack, or embedded within another struct. If the type is
  * known, a fresh instance can be initialized explicitly. Otherwise, use
- * reftable_new_record() to initialize generically (as the index_record is not
- * valid as 0-initialized structure)
+ * `reftable_record_init()` to initialize generically (as the index_record is
+ * not valid as 0-initialized structure)
  */
 struct reftable_record {
 	uint8_t type;
@@ -113,6 +110,9 @@ struct reftable_record {
 	} u;
 };
 
+/* Initialize the reftable record for the given type */
+void reftable_record_init(struct reftable_record *rec, uint8_t typ);
+
 /* see struct record_vtable */
 int reftable_record_equal(struct reftable_record *a, struct reftable_record *b, int hash_size);
 void reftable_record_print(struct reftable_record *rec, int hash_size);