In various parts of our code, we want to allocate a structure
representing the internal state of a hash algorithm. The original
implementation of the hash algorithm abstraction assumed we would do
that using heap allocations, and added a context size element to struct
git_hash_algo. However, most of the existing code uses stack
allocations and conversion would needlessly complicate various parts of
the code. Add a union for the purpose of allocating hash contexts on
the stack and a typedef for ease of use. Use this union for defining
the init, update, and final functions to avoid casts. Remove the ctxsz
element for struct git_hash_algo, which is no longer very useful.
This does mean that stack allocations will grow slightly as additional
hash functions are added, but this should not be a significant problem,
since we don't allocate many hash contexts. The improved usability and
benefits from avoiding dynamic allocation outweigh this small downside.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>