* src/od.c (dump): Only use a single memory block when there is no need to compare against the previous block. --- NEWS | 4 ++++ src/od.c | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 3a731f520..b69e20eab 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -13,6 +13,10 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- outputting to a terminal. The previous release enabled this for all outputs by default, requiring setting QUOTING_STYLE=literal to disable. +** Improvements + + 'od' allocates half the memory when is specified -v,--output-duplicates. + * Noteworthy changes in release 9.12 (2026-09-14) [stable] diff --git a/src/od.c b/src/od.c index 891037580..23d92543e 100644 --- a/src/od.c +++ b/src/od.c @@ -1519,8 +1519,8 @@ dump (void) bool ok = true; idx_t n_bytes_read; - block[0] = xinmalloc (2, bytes_per_block); - block[1] = block[0] + bytes_per_block; + block[0] = xinmalloc (1 + abbreviate_duplicate_blocks, bytes_per_block); + block[1] = block[0] + abbreviate_duplicate_blocks * bytes_per_block; intmax_t current_offset = n_bytes_to_skip; -- 2.55.0
