On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 08:57:00PM +0000, Pádraig Brady wrote: > I'm not sure it's generally worth proceeding in OOM conditions > unless there are clear fall backs. It would be nice to depend on xalloc > and just call xmalloc(). Could this suffice? > > #ifdef _LIBC > struct option_list *newp = alloca (sizeof (*newp)); > #else > struct option_list *newp = xmalloc (sizeof (*newp)); > #endif
Yeah, I am fine with that solution. Didn't think about simply using xmalloc there. Maybe it was too easy. :) Tobias
