From 6215fb8e68bdf69f4af9f7f4959ad55a70723774 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@behdad.org>
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2019 23:10:03 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] [serialize] Actually reclaim storage from duplicate objects

---
 src/hb-serialize.hh | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/hb-serialize.hh b/src/hb-serialize.hh
index d8a197b4d..e1c283c1e 100644
--- a/src/hb-serialize.hh
+++ b/src/hb-serialize.hh
@@ -198,6 +198,7 @@ struct hb_serialize_context_t
     obj->tail = head;
     obj->next = nullptr;
     unsigned len = obj->tail - obj->head;
+    head = obj->head; /* Rewind head. */
 
     if (!len)
     {
@@ -214,7 +215,6 @@ struct hb_serialize_context_t
 
     tail -= len;
     memmove (tail, obj->head, len);
-    head = obj->head;
 
     obj->head = tail;
     obj->tail = tail + len;