From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 04:25:58 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC] Cleaning up die() error messages
Message-ID: <7vd5mbqs2x.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <434C8095.4080201@zytor.com>

"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?