[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] i965: Use new/delete instead of realloc() in brw_ir_allocator.h

[Matt Turner]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 6:37 AM, Juha-Pekka Heikkila
<juhapekka.heikkila at gmail.com> wrote:
> There is no error path available thus instead of giving
> realloc possibility to fail use new which will never
> return null pointer and throws bad_alloc on failure.

The problem was that we weren't checking if realloc failed.

Why is the solution to change from malloc/free to new/delete?