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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Cleaning up die() error messages
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 13:50:24 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <434C2590.3040107@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pan.2005.10.11.19.48.04.675482@smurf.noris.de>

Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> 
> IMHO, common library code should not be allowed to die.
> (Yes, that does imply replacing all the xmalloc() calls.)
> 

The sane way to do this is probably to call an overridable git_die() 
function, which can be specified by the user to use longjmp(), to use 
exceptions, or do something else appropriately.

However, a much bigger problem is cleanup.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-11 20:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-10 10:50 [RFC] Cleaning up die() error messages Elfyn McBratney
2005-10-10 19:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-10-11 19:48   ` Matthias Urlichs
2005-10-11 20:50     ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2005-10-12  1:20       ` Matthias Urlichs
2005-10-12  3:18         ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-10-12  4:25           ` Junio C Hamano
2005-10-12  4:40             ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-10-12  5:02               ` Junio C Hamano
2005-10-12  6:04           ` Matthias Urlichs
2005-10-10 20:14 ` Daniel Barkalow
2005-10-11 15:02 ` Alex Riesen
2005-10-11 16:11   ` H. Peter Anvin

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