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  • Hash : 8cbef12d
    Author : Patrick Steinhardt
    Date : 2019-08-08T11:52:54

    util: do not perform allocations in insertsort Our hand-rolled fallback sorting function `git__insertsort_r` does an in-place sort of the given array. As elements may not necessarily be pointers, it needs a way of swapping two values of arbitrary size, which is currently implemented by allocating a temporary buffer of the element's size. This is problematic, though, as the emulated `qsort` interface doesn't provide any return values and thus cannot signal an error if allocation of that temporary buffer has failed. Convert the function to swap via a temporary buffer allocated on the stack. Like this, it can `memcpy` contents of both elements in small batches without requiring a heap allocation. The buffer size has been chosen such that in most cases, a single iteration of copying will suffice. Most importantly, it can fully contain `git_oid` structures and pointers. Add a bunch of tests for the `git__qsort_r` interface to verify nothing breaks. Furthermore, this removes the declaration of `git__insertsort_r` and makes it static as it is not used anywhere else.