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Re: [bug-gnulib] valloc()?


From: Derek Price
Subject: Re: [bug-gnulib] valloc()?
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 15:54:08 -0500
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Bruno Haible wrote:

| Derek Price wrote:
|
|> It could print the error message with error (0, errno, ...) and
|> then return NULL.  The caller could then decide if that error
|> should be fatal or not, as I presume they might wish to if they
|> are calling pagealign_alloc() as opposed to pagealign_xalloc().
|
|
| Maybe... but it makes things more complicated for the caller. And
| if this error occurs, it's a problem in the environment, not in the
| program's data; and since it occurs upon the first call to
| pagealign_alloc, you can assume that the program does not have
| sensitive data to save.


Good point.  I'll concede that.

Regards,

Derek
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