From owner-cvs-all Sun Jul 22 20:38:17 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from sneakerz.org (sneakerz.org [216.33.66.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D265137B401; Sun, 22 Jul 2001 20:38:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@sneakerz.org) Received: by sneakerz.org (Postfix, from userid 1092) id 666985D026; Sun, 22 Jul 2001 22:38:12 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 22:38:12 -0500 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Brian Somers Cc: Assar Westerlund , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libutil ecalloc.c emalloc.3 emalloc.c erealloc.c estrdup.c Makefile libutil.h Message-ID: <20010722223812.L49508@sneakerz.org> References: <200107230223.f6N2Nfg14201@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200107230223.f6N2Nfg14201@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>; from brian@Awfulhak.org on Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 03:23:41AM +0100 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Brian Somers [010722 21:23] wrote: > So we disagree. You believe these short functions bring consistency > to our code. I believe that they obscure things and make them less > portable. > > If anybody else wishes to chime in and express an opinion, now's a > good time. I've said my piece and won't push this any further unless > concensus says I should. I think that e*() shouldn't be encouraged, but it would be useful to remove the N redundant copies of it that we have in our tree. Perhaps the manpages can discourage use of it, explaining that exiting is not coping with a problem? I think that would solve all of our concerns as well as allow us to remove duplicated code. -- -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] Ok, who wrote this damn function called '??'? And why do my programs keep crashing in it? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message