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NULL check for malloc?

Subject: NULL check for malloc?

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Christopher Li· Apr 24, 2005, 14:03 UTC · lore

I notice that there are lots of malloc call without checking the return NULL pointer.

Should we just have some wrapper function for malloc just die if malloc fails?

Chris

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