From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 19:23:47 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: debugging: XMALLOC_POISON
X-Git-Tag: v1.4.2-rc4~10
X-Git-Url: https://asedeno.scripts.mit.edu/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=aa5481c1af08edbca821a0d025d26e9bc41a5c49;p=git.git

debugging: XMALLOC_POISON

Compile with -DXMALLOC_POISON=1 to catch errors from using uninitialized
memory returned by xmalloc.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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diff --git a/git-compat-util.h b/git-compat-util.h
index 93f558056..3bcf5b13f 100644
--- a/git-compat-util.h
+++ b/git-compat-util.h
@@ -91,6 +91,9 @@ static inline void *xmalloc(size_t size)
 		ret = malloc(1);
 	if (!ret)
 		die("Out of memory, malloc failed");
+#ifdef XMALLOC_POISON
+	memset(ret, 0xA5, size);
+#endif
 	return ret;
 }