On Wed, 14 Oct 2015, Mat wrote: > Is there a reason why you need to write such a wrapper around calloc()?
good question. I also have been tempted to do that in the past. > It adds very little since calloc already sets errno. Plus it's a rather > unnatural construct for an allocator to return the allocated buffer this > way. > > if ((err = essid_alloc(len, &buf)) != 0) > handle_error(err); > > if (!(buf = calloc(1, len))) > handle_error(errno); I like the second! its less code and less layering > I didn't follow the discussion, just looking at this code without context. perfect way to jump in, minimalism is very welcome here :) ciao _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng