Re: Mentions of GSS in gnulib.texi

[Simon Josefsson]

Reuben Thomas <address@hidden> writes:

> On 21 September 2010 13:34, Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Reuben Thomas <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> Are the mentions of GSS in the section "Out of memory handling" bogus
>>> cut-and-paste-o's or similar? A bit of googling suggests that the text
>>> has indeed been cut and pasted from the GNU GSS manual. It seems that
>>> this section is essentially meant to document xalloc_die (not
>>> xalloc_fail_func, which is the name this section actually uses).
>>>
>>> Should the section be deleted? Rewritten?
>>
>> It is a cut'n'paste typo.  It could be rewritten or improved.
>
> OK. I'm happy to do that, but I'm still not clear what this section is
> documenting in gnulib.

The intent was to document how the xalloc-die module is used by many
other modules in gnulib to handle out of memory conditions.  Maybe you
are right and it is no longer useful to have in the manual, as it could
be documented in the xalloc-die node instead....  Still, adding this was
a result of my confusion about how it worked a long time ago, and others
may have similar confusion in the future, so maybe there is some value.

/Simon