From: Joachim Schmitz <jojo@schmitz-digital.de>
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 18:18:14 GMT
Subject: RE: Porting git to HP NonStop
Message-ID: <004001cd8092$7f9e6540$7edb2fc0$@schmitz-digital.de>
In-Reply-To: <50352053.609@kdbg.org>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Johannes Sixt [mailto:j6t@kdbg.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2012 8:09 PM
> To: Joachim Schmitz
> Cc: 'Brandon Casey'; 'Junio C Hamano'; 'Shawn Pearce'; git@vger.kernel.org;
> rsbecker@nexbridge.com
> Subject: Re: Porting git to HP NonStop
> 
> Am 22.08.2012 20:02, schrieb Joachim Schmitz:
> >> From: Johannes Sixt [mailto:j6t@kdbg.org] Don't use x* wrappers in
> >> the compat layer, at least not those that allocate
> >> memory: They behave unpredictably due to try_to_free_routine and may
> >> lead to recursive invocations.
> >
> > I was just following orders ;-)
> > What about the other proposal, xmemdupz? Same story I guess?
> 
> xmemdupz calls xmalloc, so, yes, same story.

So back to my original patch, using strdup, check the return value, etc.

Bye, Jojo