Hi, Ashwin wrote: > Recently we performed failure testing on libxml, that is we simulated malloc > failures to see how libxml behaved in that scenario. As a result of the > testing we found a number of memory leaks and some crashes. > > There are other similar problems, so I was wondering if there is > an assumption that malloc failure will not occur since it is a rare > occurrence. Or does corrective action need to be taken wherever it occurs in > the failure path.
In almost all of the code, malloc failures are handled correctly as errors, so if you find places where that's not the case, that should be considered a bug IMHO. Stefan _______________________________________________ xml mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/ [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml
