String literals, ASCII vs UTF-8

[Stephan Bergmann]

On 02/29/2012 08:57 AM, Noel Grandin wrote:
> Surely the cheapest call-site check for the result of malloc() is just
> to attempt a fetch from the memory location?
> That will trigger SIGSEGV, but at least you'll get a stack-trace out of it.

But, as I argue, propagating to the call site is generally better and 
apparently hardly more expensive in practice.

Stephan