On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 12:15:08PM -0500, Jon Loeliger wrote:
> Many places in dtc use strdup(), but none of them actually check the
> return value to see if the implied allocation succeeded. This is a
> potential bug, which we fix in the patch below by replacing strdup()
> with an xstrdup() which in analogy to xmalloc() will quit with a fatal
> error if the allocation fails.
>
> I felt the introduciton of util.[ch] was a better choice
> for utility oriented code than directly using srcpos.c
> for the new string function.
Fair enough. Now that we have a util.c, we should move die() and
xmalloc() in there as well which are currently duplicated between dtc
and convert-dtsv0.
> This patch is a re-factoring of Dave Gibson's similar patch.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jon Loeliger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Acked-by: David Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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