Re: [Wireshark-commits] rev 36988: /trunk/ /trunk/epan/dissectors/: packet-iwarp-mpa.c packet-spnego.c packet-ssl-utils.c /trunk/: tap-iostat.c

[Stephen Fisher <steve () stephen-fisher com>]

On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 09:19:08PM +0000, darkjames () wireshark org wrote:

> Log:
>  Cleanup: g_malloc can't return NULL, remove checks for them.
>  
>  XXX, should this code use g_try_malloc instead?

That's a good question and it keeps coming up.  I think the main reason 
we we haven't moved everything to g_try_malloc is that inside GTK+ and 
GLib, they still use g_malloc, so we can't totally eliminate the 
possibilty of Wireshark being aborted when out of memory.
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