linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] slab: introduce krealloc

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Date:	Wed, 21 Feb 2007 11:33:25 +0200
From:	"Pekka Enberg" <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	"Arjan van de Ven" <arjan@...radead.org>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, clameter@....com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jsipek@....cs.sunysb.edu,
	unionfs@...esystems.org, bunk@...sta.de, hooanon05@...oo.co.jp
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] slab: introduce krealloc

On 2/21/07, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org> wrote:
> please mark this one __must_check.. not storing realloc() return values
> is one of the more nasty types of bugs... but gcc can help us greatly
> here ;)

So I guess we want the same thing for the other allocator functions
(__kmalloc et al) as well?
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