malloc without NULL check
andreas moroder
andreas.moroder at sb-brixen.it
Sun May 25 02:29:25 PDT 2008
> andreas moroder wrote:
> > ...
> > and more in other places in cups-1.4svn-r7613
>
Hello,
I did not want to criticise, I only wanted to help to get a even better code.
> First, a NULL will just cause the filter to crash, stopping the job.
and the sysadmin will never know why
>
> Second, if malloc() fails there is nothing we'll be able to do other
> than exit with a non-zero exit status, stopping the job.
In many places in the source as in image-bmp.c this already happens
Bye
Andreas
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