My advice on implementing stuff in C:
My advice on implementing stuff in C:
Posted Oct 21, 2010 20:15 UTC (Thu) by mjthayer (guest, #39183)In reply to: My advice on implementing stuff in C: by nix
Parent article: Russell: On C Library Implementation
> Quite so. Note that things like bash also abort on malloc() failure.
Isn't that the FSF's standard recommendation (/requirement)? I find the thought amusing that if you subdivide your application well into different processes and make sure that you set atexit() functions for those resources that won't be freed by the system that isn't so far away from throwing an exception in C++.
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