From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 03:18:45 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] Cleaning up die() error messages
Message-ID: <434C8095.4080201@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <pan.2005.10.12.01.20.17.917829@smurf.noris.de>

Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> 
> I thought about doing something like that, but ...
>>However, a much bigger problem is cleanup.
> 
> ... exactly.
> 

I thought about this, and probably the sanest way is to wrap malloc() 
with something that creates a linked list of allocations.  If we abort, 
we can unwind the linked list and free all allocations.

	-hpa