Re: ltask - A multi tasking library for lua

[David Crayford <dcrayford@...>]

On 1/05/2015 9:53 PM, 云风 Cloud Wu wrote:
> > In my experience malloc does fail and quite often when running on a system
> > with constrained memory. I see a lot of code with unchecked mallocs on
> > github
> > and I don't like it. If it's too much effort to check return values why not
> > just wrapper malloc/calloc so OOM failures set a message and exit cleanly?
> I would like implement the main function first, and then write the
> details about these checks.
Fair enough. But you'll save a lot of effort debugging your library for 
OOM checks with an xmalloc wrapper rather than diagnosing a core dump.
IMO, better to write your code with error checking from the start even 
if it's crash-on-failure wrappers which may not cut it for production code.