Hi Pádraig, Pádraig Brady <p...@draigbrady.com> writes:
> I always thought the x...() variants indicate they might eXit(). > > Are there any other x...() variants that just output a diagnostic, > and don't exit()? Originally I felt the same way. Since I generally think about xmalloc, xstrdup, which 99% of the time just exit or abort on error. But there is already stuff like xstrtol and xsize that don't exit or emit a diagnostic message. They just make it easier to catch errors; which always annoys me with the regular strtol :) Collin
