Do we care about malloc failure in tests?

Alexander Cherepanov ch3root@openwall.com
Tue May 31 17:00:00 GMT 2016


On 2016-05-31 10:10, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov@google.com> writes:
>
>> Do we have a policy here?
>> Should I fix them to consistently check for NULL, or delete existing
>> NULL checks?
>
> All tests should do proper NULL checks, only to set a good example.

That would be nice. When I was playing with static analysis of glibc 
code, tests were giving quite some noise. The policy of holding tests to 
the same level of rigor as the main code converts this noise into signal:-)

-- 
Alexander Cherepanov



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