"Lidong Yan via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > -static struct strbuf *decode_q_segment(const struct strbuf *q_seg, int rfc2047) > +static int decode_q_segment(struct strbuf *out, const struct strbuf *q_seg, > + int rfc2047) > { > const char *in = q_seg->buf; > int c; > - struct strbuf *out = xmalloc(sizeof(struct strbuf)); > - strbuf_init(out, q_seg->len); > + strbuf_grow(out, q_seg->len); Call to grow(), while it does not hurt correctness, would not be necessary here, but let's take this code as-is. As the result of Q encoding (and B encoding as well) always is longer than the decoded result, strbuf_grow(out, q_seg->len) would always be over-allocating, but it would not hurt too much. > -static struct strbuf *decode_b_segment(const struct strbuf *b_seg) > +static int decode_b_segment(struct strbuf *out, const struct strbuf *b_seg) > { > /* Decode in..ep, possibly in-place to ot */ > int c, pos = 0, acc = 0; > const char *in = b_seg->buf; > - struct strbuf *out = xmalloc(sizeof(struct strbuf)); > - strbuf_init(out, b_seg->len); > + strbuf_grow(out, b_seg->len); Ditto. > char *in, *ep, *cp; > - struct strbuf outbuf = STRBUF_INIT, *dec; > + struct strbuf outbuf = STRBUF_INIT, dec = STRBUF_INIT; > struct strbuf charset_q = STRBUF_INIT, piecebuf = STRBUF_INIT; > int found_error = 1; /* pessimism */ The remainder of the patch also looks good. Thanks.