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From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Joe Simmons-Talbott <josimmon@redhat.com>, libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] vfprintf-internal: Replace alloca with malloc.
Date: Wed, 17 May 2023 11:08:39 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8e9beea2-b128-83f1-dead-2c3866e28182@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230515185012.2768620-1-josimmon@redhat.com>

On 2023-05-15 11:50, Joe Simmons-Talbott via Libc-alpha wrote:
> +	    args_value[cnt].pa_user = malloc (args_size[cnt]);
> +	    if (args_value[cnt].pa_user == NULL)
> +	       break;

Shouldn't an error be returned if a printf function runs out of memory 
internally?

Also, that function already uses a scratch buffer; why not grow the 
scratch buffer instead of calling malloc separately?

  reply	other threads:[~2023-05-17 18:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-05-15 18:50 Joe Simmons-Talbott
2023-05-17 18:08 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2023-05-17 18:53   ` Cristian Rodríguez
2023-05-17 19:41   ` Joe Simmons-Talbott
2023-05-17 20:07     ` Paul Eggert
2023-05-17 21:32       ` Joe Simmons-Talbott

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