Date: 23 Jul 2001 06:49:57 +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: <5lr8v88d1m.fsf@assaris.sics.se> In-Reply-To: Alfred Perlstein's message of "Sun, 22 Jul 2001 22:38:12 -0500" References: <assar@FreeBSD.org> <200107230223.f6N2Nfg14201@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> <20010722223812.L49508@sneakerz.org>
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Alfred Perlstein <bright@sneakerz.org> writes: > 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. Why should it be discouraged? Or rather, what she the code in the tree that already does exactly this do? > 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. `Only use these functions when the only action on failure is to exit the program' ? /assar To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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