Re: what if g_strdup_printf() fails?

[Remco Poelstra <rjpoelstra home nl>]

On 2002.09.14 22:49 Scott Barron wrote:
> Looking through the source it looks like deep down inside it uses
> malloc().  It looks like it goes through g_new() which uses g_malloc()
> which uses the standard_malloc() set up in the glib_mem_vtable which
> then calls malloc().  Looking at the source for g_malloc() you'll see
> that if glib_mem_vtable.malloc() fails it posts a g_error() about it and
> returns NULL.  Please correct me if I'm off about any of this (using
> 2.0.6 sources).

Hmm, the manual says about g_malloc that if allocation fails that the 
application is terminated. I think  I'll construct my own version of 
strdup_printf(), since I've so complex cleaning to do before the 
application should terminate.

Thanks for the reply,

Remco Poelstra