Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <ava...@gmail.com> writes: > Just a side-question unrelated to this patch per-se, why do we have both > x*() and *_or_die() functions in the codebase? I can't find any pattern > for one or the other.
My understanding is that x*() were meant for system library functions. read-index-or-die should never be x-read-index. Quite honestly, read-index should probably have designed to die from the beginning, with read-index-gently as a variant to report an error instead of dying.
