Re: [PATCH 2/4] cleanup: use internal memory allocation wrapper functions everywhere

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gmail allows you to send plain text email (if you're careful to make
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sends html, gmail android app sends html, gmail mobile web sends html.
 Google's war on plain text continues...

Or have I overlooked the switch that makes gmail send plain text and
only plain text?

On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 7:53 PM, Brandon Casey <drafnel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thursday, September 15, 2011, Brandon Casey wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 1:52 AM, Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>> > Am 9/15/2011 3:59, schrieb Brandon Casey:
>> >> The "x"-prefixed versions of strdup, malloc, etc. will check whether
>> >> the
>> >> allocation was successful and terminate the process otherwise.
>> >>
>> >> A few uses of malloc were left alone since they already implemented a
>> >> graceful path of failure or were in a quasi external library like
>> >> xdiff.
>> >>
>> >> Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <drafnel@xxxxxxxxx>
>> >> ---
>> >>  ...
>> >>  compat/mingw.c        |    2 +-
>> >>  compat/qsort.c        |    2 +-
>> >>  compat/win32/syslog.c |    2 +-
>> >
>> > There is a danger that the high-level die() routine (which is used by
>> > the
>> > x-wrappers) uses one of the low-level compat/ routines. IOW, in the case
>> > of errors, recursion might occur. Therefore, I would prefer that the
>> > compat/ routines do their own error reporting (preferably via return
>> > values and errno).
>>
>> Thanks.  Will do.
>
> Hi Johannes,
> I have taken a closer look at the possibility of recursion with respect to
> die() and the functions in compat/.  It appears the risk is only related to
> vsnprintf/snprintf at the moment.  So as long as we avoid calling xmalloc et
> al from within snprintf.c, I think we should be safe from recursion.
> I'm inclined to keep the additions to mingw.c and win32/syslog.c since they
> both already use the x-wrappers or strbuf, even though they could easily be
> worked around.  The other file that was touched is compat/qsort, which
> returns void and doesn't have a good alternative error handling path.  So,
> I'm inclined to keep that one too.
> Sound reasonable?
> -Brandon
>
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