From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 04:40:37 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] Cleaning up die() error messages
Message-ID: <434C93C5.9040505@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vd5mbqs2x.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:
> 
>>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.
> 
> You can free() the allocated memory with something like that,
> but it is likely that the aborted function would have already
> created some linked structure out of those memory blocks, and
> cleaning up that you would need the real exception handling
> wouldn't you?
> 

Not unless any of those linked structures can be reached from outside 
the git library.

	-hpa