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From: Johannes Sixt <J.Sixt@eudaptics.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Libification project (SoC)
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:06:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45FA501B.FA5B9F30@eudaptics.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20070316045928.GB31606@spearce.org

"Shawn O. Pearce" wrote:
> "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

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-03-16  8:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-16  4:24 Libification project (SoC) Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
2007-03-16  4:59 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-03-16  5:30   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-03-16  6:00     ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-03-16  6:54       ` Junio C Hamano
2007-03-16 11:54         ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-03-16 13:09           ` Rocco Rutte
2007-03-16 15:12             ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-03-16 15:55               ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-03-16 16:13                 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-03-16 16:26                   ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-03-16 18:22                     ` Steve Frécinaux
2007-03-16 18:53                       ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-03-18 13:57                         ` Petr Baudis
2007-03-16 23:26                     ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-03-16 16:17                 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-03-16 18:20               ` Marco Costalba
2007-03-16 18:38                 ` Marco Costalba
2007-03-16 18:59                   ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-03-16 21:07                     ` Marco Costalba
2007-03-16 23:24                       ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-03-17  7:04                         ` Marco Costalba
2007-03-17 17:29                           ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-03-16 19:09                   ` Andy Parkins
2007-03-18 14:08               ` Petr Baudis
2007-03-18 23:48                 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-03-19  1:21                   ` Petr Baudis
2007-03-19  1:43                     ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-03-19  2:56                       ` Theodore Tso
2007-03-19  3:55                         ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-03-19 14:57                         ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-03-19 16:28                         ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-19 16:32                           ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-21 11:17                           ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-03-21 17:24                             ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-22  9:51                               ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-03-19  7:01                       ` Marco Costalba
2007-03-19  9:46                         ` Steve Frécinaux
2007-03-19 10:33                         ` Steve Frécinaux
2007-03-19 12:37                         ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-03-19 12:52                           ` Petr Baudis
2007-03-19 13:55                             ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-03-19 13:04                           ` Marco Costalba
2007-03-16 12:53     ` Petr Baudis
2007-03-16 13:47     ` Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
2007-03-16 14:08       ` Petr Baudis
2007-03-16 18:38         ` Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
2007-03-16 23:16           ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-03-17 19:58             ` Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
2007-03-18  5:23               ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-03-18  5:52                 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-03-18 16:18                   ` Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
2007-03-18 19:31                     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-03-19 16:09                       ` Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
2007-03-18 21:15                     ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-03-16 15:16       ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-03-16  8:06   ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
2007-03-16  8:58     ` Matthieu Moy
2007-03-16 11:51       ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-03-16 12:55   ` Petr Baudis
2007-03-17  2:24 ` Jakub Narebski
2007-03-17  5:22   ` Shawn O. Pearce

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