Re: in general one might have to do things in an error branch that one might not have to do during normal flow
Re: in general one might have to do things in an error branch that one might not have to do during normal flow
Posted Dec 30, 2014 20:53 UTC (Tue) by ldo (guest, #40946)In reply to: Re: Please, no knee-jerk "no goto ever" reactions by anselm
Parent article: The "too small to fail" memory-allocation rule
I believe this is another instance of the “cleanup” versus “rollback” argument made elsewhere. See my comments about idempotency of deallocation routines and NULLing subsumed pointers.