- From: Eric W. Sink <eric@spyglass.com>
- Date: Wed, 13 Jul 1994 15:36:43 -0600
- To: www-lib@www0.cern.ch
>It's not a question of keeping things simple,
Of course it is!
>you can do an awfull
>lot more if you know the type of the thing you are mallocing.
Granted, but I don't want to do an awful lot more.
[ rather convincing argument deleted ]
>In fact I would like to suggest that we move to a system where EVERY routine
>returns a status code value. This could either be a simple integer or a
>pointer to a structure (more macros, should be a choice!). This means that
>you always know how to expect the status code and not have a mish mash of
>different status conventions.
OK, I'll accept your idea. After all, I can't expect that others will
make *all* the compromises. In general, returning status code values is
a Good Idea which is kind of hard to argue with, and your suggested W3_MALLOC
macro which has the type built in looks quite livable.
But it's not "simple" :-)
Eric W. Sink, Software Engineer -- eric@spyglass.com 217-355-6000 ext 237
All opinions expressed are mine, and may not be those of my employer.
"Only academic people put cheese in their pocket."
-SW, 24 May 1994
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