Re: xmalloc string functions

On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:34:58 +0000, Yevgen Muntyan wrote:

Malcolm McLean wrote:
Here are six functions implemented on top of xmalloc(). No C programmer
should have any triouble providing the implemetations, though replace
and getquote are non-trivial.

[snip]

I've think we've got something quite powerful here, purely because none
of these functions can ever return null for out of memory conditions.
It massively simplifies string handling.

Take a look at glib,
http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/2.14/glib-Memory-Allocation.html

Oh, good God. They didn't. Tell me they didn't.

One wonders how many applications they've screwed over with that bit of
asinine idiocy.

Malcolm should go work for them. He'd love it. "Errors? We don't do
errors, we just crash the app. Enjoy another piece of quality software
from the Gnome team."

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