Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 22:38:12 -0500 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@sneakerz.org> To: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> Cc: Assar Westerlund <assar@FreeBSD.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: <20010722223812.L49508@sneakerz.org> In-Reply-To: <200107230223.f6N2Nfg14201@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>; from brian@Awfulhak.org on Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 03:23:41AM %2B0100 References: <assar@FreeBSD.org> <200107230223.f6N2Nfg14201@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>
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* Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> [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
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