[PATCH xf86-input-joystick 1/2] Deprecated code cleanup.

Mikhail Gusarov dottedmag at dottedmag.net
Tue Oct 19 03:03:54 PDT 2010


Twas brillig at 10:07:23 19.10.2010 UTC+02 when wharms at bfs.de did gyre and gimble:

 wh> malloc will return (void *) so there is no need to cast.
 wh> i do not know xmalloc() but i see no check for OOM condition.
 wh> instead of removing xmalloc() it would be more useful to follow
 wh> XtMalloc() that has error handling inside.

Sho what's the reasonable error strategy? Shut down the server?

xmalloc is just a funny name for malloc nowadays.

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