svn commit: r316492 - in head/usr.bin/grep: . regex

[Ngie Cooper (yaneurabeya)]

> On Apr 4, 2017, at 12:04, Conrad Meyer <cem at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 11:56 AM, Dimitry Andric <dim at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> On 4 Apr 2017, at 19:14, Ngie Cooper (yaneurabeya) <yaneurabeya at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Where did xmalloc.c originate from?
>> 
>> GNU.
> 
> I believe this to be completely incorrect.
> 
>> Almost all software from the GNU project relies on malloc wrappers
>> which abort the program on allocation failures.
> 
> That is not what bsdgrep's xmalloc() did, if you read the code. It
> simply tracks all allocations for basic leak analysis.
> 
> Abort on allocation failure would be a perfectly reasonable behavior
> for bsdgrep(1), too.

There are multiple, competing definitions floating around the internet. I was genuinely curious where this variant came from because I wanted to make sure we weren’t just zapping a file that some upstream uses somewhere, in the event we were going to bring down further updates, again, from said upstream source.
Thanks,
-Ngie

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