Add a semantic patch for removing checks similar to the one that QSORT
already does internally and apply it to the code base.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add the macro QSORT, a convenient wrapper for qsort(3) that infers the
size of the array elements and supports the convention of initializing
empty arrays with a NULL pointer, which we use in some places.
Calling qsort(3) directly with a NULL pointer is undefined -- even with
an element count of zero -- and allows the compiler to optimize away any
following NULL checks. Using the macro avoids such surprises.
Add a semantic patch as well to demonstrate the macro's usage and to
automate the transformation of trivial cases.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
