[PATCH] terminal: Convert all *alloc's to x*alloc's.

Pekka Paalanen ppaalanen at gmail.com
Tue Apr 29 05:43:35 PDT 2014


On Tue, 29 Apr 2014 14:35:21 +0200
Michael Schellenberger Costa <schellenberger at inb.uni-luebeck.de> wrote:

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> Hi all,
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> i might be dumb again, but as zalloc is a one line function, why not
> just add the check to zalloc instead of searching for all uses of it?

Function naming convention. We seems to use x* for "check or exit".

> Would there be any use case where one would not check for out of memory?

If zalloc() ends up unused, it could be dropped. Server code OTOH
probably wouldn't use x* functions, but check explicitly.


Thanks
pq


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