Re: getline() behaviour change

[Jim Meyering]

Ben Pfaff <address@hidden> wrote:

> Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Jim Meyering wrote:
>>> A *lot* of code expects malloc and realloc to set errno when they fail.
>>
>> Such code is not portable to plain ISO C 99 systems.
>
> We could extend gnulib's existing malloc/realloc wrappers to
> ensure that malloc/realloc set errno when they fail, if it is
> worthwhile to do so.

It is definitely worthwhile to do so.