Re: [Iscsitarget-devel] xmalloc

[FUJITA T. <fuj...@la...>]

From: Ming Zhang <mi...@el...>
Subject: [Iscsitarget-devel] xmalloc
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 15:13:29 -0500

> what is the purpose of this code?
> 
> in usr/target.c,

This is the original Ardis code. Some people like wrapper functions
for error checking. And xmalloc is often used for the wrapper function
for malloc.

http://www.tug.org/tex-archive/dviware/dvi2xx/xmalloc.c


> void *xmalloc(size_t size)
> {
> 	void *ptr;
> 
> 	if (size == 0)
> 		;
> 	ptr = malloc(size);
> 	if (ptr == NULL)
> 		;
> 	return ptr;
> }

I think that an Ardis developer intended to put some debugging code
here, but he didn't after all.


Anyway, I don't like such wrapper functions. If you send me a patch to
replace xmalloc with malloc, I'm happy to apply it.