[TCLCORE] Re: Hintermayer's string allocation patch

[Jim I. <ji...@ap...>]

On Friday, September 1, 2000, at 11:45 AM, Scott Stanton wrote:

>  
> "D. Richard Hipp" said: 
>  > Perhaps Tcl_TryToAlloc() or Tcl_AttemptAlloc() 
>  > instead.  Here the idea is "try to get me some 
>  > memory but its OK if you can't, just let me know." 
>  > This will be (I think) a seldom used function,  
>  > so a longer name is not a handicap. 
>  
> The existing TclpAlloc could be the right way to handle this.  It is  
> usually just a wrapper around malloc() on Unix, so if we fixed the Tcl  
> allocator to avoid panics (as George suggested), then on all platforms it  
> would return NULL on allocation failures.  Then the outer Tcl_Alloc call  
> can implement the guarantee never to return NULL. 
>  

The only problem with this is that we would then be making a "p" routine part of the public Tcl API's.  I am not sure what the  thinking on this is.

Jim

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Jim Ingham                                   ji...@ap...
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