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Re: [RFC] Cleaning up die() error messages

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Oct 12, 2005, 04:25 UTC
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"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?

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Message 7 of 13 in “[RFC] Cleaning up die() error messages”
  1. Elfyn McBratneyOct 10, 2005
  2. Junio C HamanoOct 10, 2005
  3. Matthias UrlichsOct 11, 2005
  4. H. Peter AnvinOct 11, 2005
  5. Matthias UrlichsOct 12, 2005
  6. H. Peter AnvinOct 12, 2005
  7. Junio C HamanoOct 12, 2005
  8. H. Peter AnvinOct 12, 2005
  9. Junio C HamanoOct 12, 2005
  10. Matthias UrlichsOct 12, 2005
  11. Daniel BarkalowOct 10, 2005
  12. Alex RiesenOct 11, 2005
  13. H. Peter AnvinOct 11, 2005

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