On Fri, 29 Apr 2016 11:54:54 -0300
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <a...@kernel.org> wrote:

> Em Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 11:46:32PM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu escreveu:
> > Hi Arnaldo, 
> > 
> > This patch series does refactoring strbuf and xrealloc related code
> > to remove xrealloc since it can call die() to exit immediately when
> > it hits any error. Instead of that, it should return error code to
> > the caller so that the caller can handle its error.
> > 
> > Thus, at first, this changes the strbuf APIs to return error code
> > instead of die() immediately. And then changing API callers according
> > to the following rules.
> >  - Check the return value of strbuf APIs and handle errors and,
> >    - If the caller returns an error code (errno), it returns
> >      the return value of strbuf APIs.
> >    - If the caller just return -1 or NULl in error case, it also
> >      returns -1 or NULL in case of strbuf error. 
> >    - If the caller can call die() directly, it also call die()
> >      in case of strbuf error.
> >  - Error checking patches are splitted for each subcommand, since
> >    it will help review.
> > 
> > This also removes xrealloc and ALLOC_GROW from libperf, so that no
> > one use it anymore.
> > 
> > This series actually depends on the series of SDT support patches
> > which I've sent an hour ago. It is also able to change this not to
> > depend on it easily. Please ask me if you'd like so.
> 
> Please do so, as this one looks easier to review, so can go in faster.

OK, I sent it as v2 in order to avoid confusion.

Thank you!



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Masami Hiramatsu <mhira...@kernel.org>

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