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Re:Memory management in C programs (2014) by et1337 on Monday July 18, 2016 @10:32PM (#12119173)
Completely agree, and it's surprising to see this in Nethack because game programmers almost unanimously shun exceptions.

In games, you have a small number of functions that can tolerate failure, probably relating to IO. Everything else instantly explodes.

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Re:Memory management in C programs (2014) by Narishma on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @04:48AM (#12120618)
Games that don't use exceptions tend to do so because of performance concerns. Nethack is a turn-based game, so performance isn't as relevant here.
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Re:Memory management in C programs (2014) by AbacusAvenger on Monday July 18, 2016 @11:10PM (#12119305)
Bear in mind this is Nethack4 which is a fork of Nethack.
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