[PATCH 02/17] Let calloc handle multiplication

[walter harms]

Am 01.04.2015 11:31, schrieb Daniel Stone:
> Hi,
> 
> On 1 April 2015 at 10:18, walter harms <wharms at bfs.de> wrote:
>> what is the strategy here ?
>>
>> xnfcalloc never fails, but exits on OOM conditions.
>> other function return BADALLOC.
> 
> You said it - 'never fails'. That's what the nf stands for.
> 


No problem we me, in the real world i never encountered programs that
try to handle situations like OOM except doing exit(1). Linux Kernel
as noteworthy exception.

Why not generally call xnfmalloc/calloc/realloc and exit on OOM ?
The strategy now seems otherwise.

re,
 wh