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Re: scm_must_malloc() vs. malloc()
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Rob Browning |
Subject: |
Re: scm_must_malloc() vs. malloc() |
Date: |
19 Mar 2001 11:11:51 -0600 |
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Dirk Herrmann <address@hidden> writes:
> (Maybe we should also try to find better names for scm_must_malloc
> and friends. The current names don't express very clearly what they
> are to be used for :-)
Hmm. Also, I thought I'd seen docs that more suggested that you
should use scm_must_malloc whenever you *really* needed memory, and if
you didn't get it the app was hosed. I don't recall seeing the added
caveat above that it should only be used for memory that the caller's
not going to free. But I may be mistaken. In any case, if I come
across those docs again, I'll update them.
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Rob Browning <address@hidden> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930