From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Cleaning up die() error messages
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 21:40:37 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <434C93C5.9040505@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vd5mbqs2x.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
Junio C Hamano wrote:
> "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:
>
>>I thought about this, and probably the sanest way is to wrap malloc()
>>with something that creates a linked list of allocations. If we abort,
>>we can unwind the linked list and free all allocations.
>
> You can free() the allocated memory with something like that,
> but it is likely that the aborted function would have already
> created some linked structure out of those memory blocks, and
> cleaning up that you would need the real exception handling
> wouldn't you?
>
Not unless any of those linked structures can be reached from outside
the git library.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-12 4:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-10 10:50 [RFC] Cleaning up die() error messages Elfyn McBratney
2005-10-10 19:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-10-11 19:48 ` Matthias Urlichs
2005-10-11 20:50 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-10-12 1:20 ` Matthias Urlichs
2005-10-12 3:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-10-12 4:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-10-12 4:40 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2005-10-12 5:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-10-12 6:04 ` Matthias Urlichs
2005-10-10 20:14 ` Daniel Barkalow
2005-10-11 15:02 ` Alex Riesen
2005-10-11 16:11 ` H. Peter Anvin
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