Re: [llnl-devel] Re: [Freeipmi-devel] xmalloc

[Anand Babu]

Hi Al,
Got it. I will replace xmalloc with XMALLOC which set errno and
return even if the system runs out of memory.
Thanks

,----[ Albert Chu <address@hidden> ]
| Perhaps this a "philosophical" thing to me, but my opinion is that
| libraries should never fail/exit unless it is a fatal error and bug
| within the library (for example failing at an assert()).
| 
| It is ok for applications to exit on a malloc error, b/c that is the
| choice of the developer.  But if we are developing a library for other
| developers to use, I don't think a library should make the choice for
| them.  This is the same reason why we return errnos for sendto(),
| recvfrom(), write(), etc.
`----


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