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From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Cleaning up die() error messages
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 21:25:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vd5mbqs2x.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <434C8095.4080201@zytor.com> (H. Peter Anvin's message of "Tue, 11 Oct 2005 20:18:45 -0700")

"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?

  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-12  4:26 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 [this message]
2005-10-12  4:40             ` H. Peter Anvin
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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