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Re: [llnl-devel] Re: [Freeipmi-devel] xmalloc
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Anand Babu |
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Re: [llnl-devel] Re: [Freeipmi-devel] xmalloc |
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Tue, 30 Dec 2003 12:17:48 -0800 |
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,----[ Ian Zimmerman <address@hidden> ]
| Anand Babu <address@hidden> writes:
| Purpose of xmalloc is to check the return value of malloc. C does not
| have any exception handling facility. Code for error handling can grow
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| more than the actual code if all return values are checked.
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| Not a built-in one, that is. There are quite a few macro packages that do
| exceptions on top of (set|long)jmp.
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Give me more info, let us evaluate.
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Anand Babu
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