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Re:Memory management in C programs (2014) by niccaluim on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @01:56AM (#12120038)
>> It just has to be written so that most functions manually propagate error codes they receive

> When I've had to write C, I've found this to be exceptionally tedious to do correctly, and all too easy to ignore.

Indeed. I write Go all day and I type "if err != nil { return nil, err }" so often I could scream.

Re:Memory management in C programs (2014) by pjc50 on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @05:31AM (#12120770)
They should probably add a keyword for that phrase.