On Mon, 2010-07-12 at 13:12 -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
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> Em Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 10:30:36AM -0400, Steven Rostedt escreveu:

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> Well, I prefer to follow the kernel way of doing things, i.e. to
> propagate as much as possible up the callchain the error return value,
> so that the apps can handle it in any way they prefer, i.e. die() calls
> in tools/perf/builtin-foo.c are okayish, but not on tools/perf/util/.

Ah, yes, die is a bit strong. And I have been starting to avoid them
too. Although, when malloc fails, it's almost certain that the app will
die soon anyway ;-)

-- Steve


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