Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 14:08:00 +0200 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: Assar Westerlund <assar@FreeBSD.org>, Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, 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: <20010723140759.Y79615@daemon.ninth-circle.org> In-Reply-To: <001c01c1133a$f2b9ac50$24b244cc@blabber> References: <3698025593.995835470@blabber> <5lwv508huv.fsf@assaris.sics.se> <001c01c1133a$f2b9ac50$24b244cc@blabber>
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-On [20010723 07:50], Wes Peters (wes@softweyr.com) wrote: >I agree with Alfred, I really don't like the idea of a program exiting >willy-nilly and feel this will encourage developers to do so. It is >marginally better than not testing return values at all, and hoping for >a core file, but only marginally so. The fact that it has been done >alot in existing code doesn't make it a good practice, just a common >one. I think this is another example where programmers don't know C and Unix supporting standards well enough, so that they depend on non-portable functions. I think it is obfuscation in most cases. -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai@[wxs.nl|freebsd.org|xmach.org] Documentation nutter/C-rated Coder, finger asmodai@ninth-circle.dnsalias.net http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/ Escaping the Law of the Unexplained Pains... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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