Jeremy Olexa wrote: > Andrey Grozin wrote: >> It was discussed (don't have a reference to the thread at >> hand) that it would be useful to have a table which shows which >> functions die by themselves, and which not. >> >> Andrey >> > > I see this asked every X months and never quite figured out why, (this > isn't personal against you, Andrey) [...] > Take a look for yourself and you will see why there has never been a > "table" or anything created. (it is trivial - and you have the source on > your computer already)
It shouldn't be necessary to grep the source, if these things would follow a simple logical rule, in accordance with the principle of least surprise. It would be handy to be able to say: all e* functions die, but do* and new* do not. But tommy's list shows that emake is an exception to the rule. I'm not aware of any other exceptions, but I can't be sure unless I go digging through the source. Which really should not be necessary, in my opinion. -- Ben de Groot Gentoo Linux developer (lxde, media, qt, desktop-misc) Gentoo Linux Release Engineering PR liaison ______________________________________________________ [email protected] http://ben.liveforge.org/ irc://chat.freenode.net/#gentoo-media irc://irc.oftc.net/#lxde ______________________________________________________
