Adding a compile time check would be good. I’m not sure how.
It would be possible to implement a malloc failure feature in the test suite
that systematically runs a test many times, failing successive malloc calls.
I’m kind of surprised that the various static analysers hadn't found some of
these.
Pauli
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> On 21 Nov 2019, at 1:26 pm, Dmitry Belyavsky wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Observing a series of similar bugs related to a lack of checks of the malloc
> return values, I wonder if we could automate the search of these errors on
> the compile level (e.g. similar to the __owur macro)?
>
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> SY, Dmitry Belyavsky