Date: 23 Jul 2001 03:07:51 +0200 From: Assar Westerlund <assar@FreeBSD.org> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@sneakerz.org> Cc: 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: <5ld76sh2qg.fsf@assaris.sics.se> In-Reply-To: Alfred Perlstein's message of "Sun, 22 Jul 2001 20:02:26 -0500" References: <assar@FreeBSD.org> <200107230058.f6N0wig12579@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> <20010722200226.J49508@sneakerz.org>
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Alfred Perlstein <bright@sneakerz.org> writes: > > What a bizarre idea. IMHO this is not necessary. Was this discussed > > somewhere ? > > I guess a lot of people use these type of functions, however I > really hate them because they give the programmer the illusion that > if memory fails it's ok to bail. It is usually not as there may > be some external state such as tempfiles of locks to clean up. atexit(3)? But I think this is a rather moot point since these functions exist in lots of programs and it's better to have them in a library. > IMO, better to tap NULL than to exit with your pants around your > ankles. :) Yup. You should only use them with you aren't going to handle a NULL or when you would just exit anyways. /assar To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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