"Shawn O. Pearce" wrote:
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> "Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino" <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br> wrote:
> >     o Avoid dying when a function call fails (eg, malloc())
> 
> malloc is a huge problem in the Git code today.  Almost all
> of our malloc calls are actually through the xmalloc wrapper.
> All xmalloc callers assume xmalloc will *never* fail.  This
> makes it, uh, interesting.  ;-)

You could think about longjmp(3)ing out into main(), which would have to
setjmp(3). But in order to clean up intermediate frames, you would have
to have a stack of setjmp/longjmp buffers.

Oh, well, how do I *love* them C++ exceptions!

-- Hannes

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