Re: [Libvisual-devel] visual_malloc()

[Dennis S. <sy...@yo...>]

Sounds good, in which C file do you wish to add this ?

Btw, did you have a look at the copyright banner I posted
to the list ?

Cheers,
Dennis

On Sun, 2004-07-04 at 20:00 -0300, Duilio Javier Protti wrote:
> I was thinking about to include in the library a
> Glib like macro to make request of memory initialized
> to 0. It will fail if malloc returns NULL, showing an
> useful message. Looks something like:
> 
> void *visual_malloc0 (size_t nbytes);
> 
> #define visual_new0(struct_type, n_structs)          \
>     ((struct_type *) visual_malloc0 (((size_t) sizeof (struct_type)) *
> ((size_t) (n_structs))))
> 
> 
> This will let us require memory without checking
> the return value and showing a message accordingly.
> 
> People, what do you think?
> 
> 
> Duilio.