From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 20:50:24 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] Cleaning up die() error messages
Message-ID: <434C2590.3040107@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <pan.2005.10.11.19.48.04.675482@smurf.noris.de>

Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> 
> IMHO, common library code should not be allowed to die.
> (Yes, that does imply replacing all the xmalloc() calls.)
> 

The sane way to do this is probably to call an overridable git_die() 
function, which can be specified by the user to use longjmp(), to use 
exceptions, or do something else appropriately.

However, a much bigger problem is cleanup.

	-hpa