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

[Francisco Jerez]

Matt Turner <mattst88 at gmail.com> writes:

> 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?

The new operator is guaranteed not to return NULL by the C++ standard.
Aside from that Juha-Pekka's code seems more idiomatic to me than
calling realloc() from a C++ source file, but that might just be a
matter of taste.

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