Re: getline() behaviour change

[Eric Blake]

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According to Ben Pfaff on 8/22/2007 5:19 PM:
> Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> Jim Meyering wrote:
>>> A *lot* of code expects malloc and realloc to set errno when they fail.
>> Such code is not portable to plain ISO C 99 systems.
> 
> We could extend gnulib's existing malloc/realloc wrappers to
> ensure that malloc/realloc set errno when they fail, if it is
> worthwhile to do so.

I would somewhat like this idea - it is much nicer assuming that malloc
reliably sets errno to ENOMEM on failure than having to patch all callers
of malloc to do the same.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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