[zeromq-dev] czmq and zalloc - handling OOM situations

[AJ Lewis]

Hi all,

I'm just starting to use zmq and czmq.  After poking a bit at the APIs
and the czmq code, I'm a bit confused about the zmalloc macro and
associated safe_malloc() wrapper.  It appears that the assumption in
czmq is that cmalloc never fails, which is generally true in Linux, but
not necessarily true on other OSes.  Is there a reason czmq doesn't
propogate a malloc error back up through the call stack, and instead
just abort()s?  I could #define _ZMALLOC_DEBUG, but then functions like
zframe_new() would just segfault in the OOM case.

Thank you,
-- 
AJ Lewis

P.S. Apologies if this ends up as a dup on the list - I originally sent
it through a smart mailer in a way which mailman appears to mark as
spam.

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