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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/10] perf, tools: Factor out scale conversion code
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> I tools/ specifically, I try to use the same constructs, list.h, rbtree,
> WARN_, pr_, etc, not panic()'ing, etc.
> 
> In this specific case, doing a:
> 
>    printf("life is hard, I give up"); exit(1);

Ok that would be just what a wrapper does, only open coded.

How about we just add helpers for these cases?

xstrdup
xmalloc
xasprintf 

etc.

-Andi