[parted-devel] Use xmalloc and xrealloc, rather than unchecked malloc and realloc.

Otavio Salvador otavio at debian.org
Fri May 25 17:37:13 UTC 2007


Jim Meyering <jim at meyering.net> writes:

> Seeing that unchecked "malloc", I figured there must be others.
> Here are some:
>
> 	Use xmalloc and xrealloc, rather than unchecked malloc and realloc.
> 	* parted/table.c: Use gnulib's xmalloc and realloc.
> 	Remove anachronistic casts of malloc/realloc return value.
> 	Change "sizeof(type)" to safer "sizeof(*var)" (one of the former
> 	was wrong, but in a harmless way).

Ack.

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