From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@eudaptics.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 08:06:51 GMT
Subject: Re: Libification project (SoC)
Message-ID: <45FA501B.FA5B9F30@eudaptics.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070316045928.GB31606@spearce.org>

"Shawn O. Pearce" wrote:
> "Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino" <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br> wrote:
> >     o Avoid dying when a function call fails (eg, malloc())
> 
> malloc is a huge problem in the Git code today.  Almost all
> of our malloc calls are actually through the xmalloc wrapper.
> All xmalloc callers assume xmalloc will *never* fail.  This
> makes it, uh, interesting.  ;-)

You could think about longjmp(3)ing out into main(), which would have to
setjmp(3). But in order to clean up intermediate frames, you would have
to have a stack of setjmp/longjmp buffers.

Oh, well, how do I *love* them C++ exceptions!

-- Hannes