Re:Ask HN: What are some examples of beautiful software?
by lorenzhs on Monday March 14, 2016 @07:15AM
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gotos are sometimes used in C for error handling (to release resources), it's a simple way to do cleanup:
That's a use of goto that's often considered non-evil, probably because the alternatives are typically a lot more ugly.
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Re:Ask HN: What are some examples of beautiful software?
by lokeshk on Monday March 14, 2016 @12:36PM
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Sorry to be a stickler, but the error handling in your method "frees" a resource even when nothing was allocated to it. Freeing a null pointer is as such an undefined behavior.
Re:Ask HN: What are some examples of beautiful software?
by Someone on Monday March 14, 2016 @03:32PM
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http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/wg14/www/docs/n1124.pdf, section 7.20.3.2 "The free function":
"The free function causes the space pointed to by ptr to be deallocated, that is, made available for further allocation. If ptr is a null pointer, no action occurs."