Hello Bob!

Replying to a message of Bob Stout to Jerry Coffin:

 BS> Arguably even better are...

 BS>  assert(x = malloc(somesize));

Ewwwww!  No way.  Asserts are supposed to take care of things that can't
(by definition) happen, not things that can happen (like being out of
memory).  And, thus, when you have your system ready for production, just
add -DNDEBUG to your compilation units, and the tests go away ... and so
does your memory allocation ;-)

 BS> ...or...

 BS> #define MALLOC(ptr,size) if(NULL==(ptr=malloc(size))) abort()

This is completely different - you're actually handling the out-of-memory
condition explicitly ... not gracefully, but explicitly ;-)

 BS>  MALLOC(x, somesize);

Darin

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