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From: asente@decwrl.dec.com (Paul Asente)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Returning from XtMalloc??
Message-ID: <2935@bacchus.dec.com>
Date: 1 Mar 90 18:46:56 GMT
References: <9002271554.AA12993@ra.>
Organization: DEC Western Software Lab
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In article <9002271554.AA12993@ra.> devsop%ra%netvax@CCC.NMFECC.GOV (Pothier Steve) writes:
>However, the Xt versions don't seem to return if space can't be
>allocated. Does this mean one should use the Xt alloc functions only
>when the memory they grab is strictly necessary to continue with
>client execution? Should we use regular C alloc functions when there
>is the possibility of continueing from a failed alloc?

Yes.  However, most applications react to a failed malloc (if they bother
to react to it at all) by issuing an error message, so XtMalloc does this
automatically as a convenience to the programmer.  If you can recover from
a failed malloc, by all means use malloc.

	-paul asente
	    asente@decwrl.dec.com	decwrl!asente