Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 08/13 v5] libxl: don't leak ptr in libxl_list_vm error case [and 1 more messages]

[Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Daley writes ("Re: [PATCH 08/13 v5] libxl: don't leak ptr in 
libxl_list_vm error case [and 1 more messages]"):
> On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 12:22 PM, Matthew Daley <mattd@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > For the record, for custom wrapper functions like these I usually
> > prefer to stick as close to the existing functions' semantics as
> > possible, not so much out of love for standards but out of desiring
> > the absence of surprising behaviour.
> 
> Although, I suppose changing things wrt. the standards would just
> introduce new slightly-surprising behaviours vs. having existing
> really-surprising ones...

Precisely.  And anyone surprised by the lack of a workaround for some
standard misbeaviour of malloc or realloc would hopefully go and find
the doc comment for the wrapper and be reassured.

Ian.

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