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Re: Do we care about malloc failure in tests?

From: Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov at google dot com>
To: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
Cc: GLIBC Devel <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, Bill Parker <wp02855 at gmail dot com>
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2016 14:41:20 -0700
Subject: Re: Do we care about malloc failure in tests?
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On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 9:44 AM, Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:

> Perhaps also include the request allocation size as well.

Something like attached?
I am a little worried about multiplication overflow in xcalloc, but I
guess this overflow shouldn't really happen in tests, and if it does
happen the error report will be only a little bit wrong.

Thanks,
-- 
Paul Pluzhnikov

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References:
- Re: Do we care about malloc failure in tests?
  - From: Paul Pluzhnikov
- Re: Do we care about malloc failure in tests?
  - From: Mike Frysinger
- Re: Do we care about malloc failure in tests?
  - From: Florian Weimer

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