TIL: this is something... you can dopic.twitter.com/YVkCdJZKPP
-
@oe1cxw@fioraaeterna I don’t think it’s fair to punish implementations that are doing The Right Thing for robustness from that perspective.
@dev_console @FioraAeterna The only sane thing to do would probably just be to silently call abort() I guess?
-
-
@oe1cxw@fioraaeterna POSIX doesn’t specify if fread() has to allocate, but there are implementations that don’t — musl libc comes to mind. -
@dev_console@oe1cxw@FioraAeterna Where is fread() involved and why would it ever allocate? - Show replies
New conversation -
-
-
@oe1cxw@fioraaeterna As a library, it’s mostly not your decision to make — you can try to clean up some internal buffers maybe… -
@dev_console@FioraAeterna That sounds reasonable for a lib. (Only half-serious: But how can you test this?) - Show replies
New conversation -
-
-
@oe1cxw@fioraaeterna But you should mostly include the possibility of failure in your API so it can be returned to the caller…Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
@oe1cxw@fioraaeterna Who then can do various things depending on the environment, constraints and need. abort() is one of them of course…Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
@oe1cxw@fioraaeterna But an embedded application can for instance try to make some space by swapping out stuff. -
@dev_console@FioraAeterna At least for non-embedded: You never now when the OS tries to increase the stack size.. You can run OOM this way. - Show replies
New conversation -
-
-
@oe1cxw@fioraaeterna Main point is it’s not a library’s call to make, just like a library shouldn’t (unless requested) mess with ctrl flow.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
@oe1cxw@fioraaeterna For applications, if nothing else I find even an attempt at an error message more useful than just SIGSEGV. :) -
@oe1cxw@fioraaeterna Since error messages can also include source code file and line, SIGSEGV can also mean all kinds of NULL deref stuff.
End of conversation
New conversation -
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.