Re: [ILUG] C question [puzzled by strdup()]

From: Paul Jakma (paulj at domain alphyra.ie)
Date: Thu 02 Aug 2001 - 15:34:59 IST


On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, kevin lyda wrote:

> global vars aren't the best. functions that return "success" or "why
> failed" are nicer, imho.

indeed..

> you can return more complex things via pass by reference params.
>
> another idea is an error stack, libxml uses it, but that can suffer the
> same issues as the errno one.

hmm.. good idea...

what are the bones of implementing it?

> well, under ansi c i think that's frowned on.

good - piss easy to define an app-specific global err var.

> kevin

--paulj



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