RE: [PATCH 3/14] arch/ia64: Eliminate NULL test and memset afteralloc_bootmem

[Julia Lawall]

On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, Luck, Tony wrote:

> > In addition the current alloc_bootmem() is a macro that uses __alloc_bootmem
> > which most defintely can return NULL.
> 
>         ...
>         panic("Out of memory");
>         return NULL;
> }
> 
> Oops ... that "panic" call before the "return NULL" makes the
> above statement totally wrong.

Thanks.  I was worried there might be somewhere a non-aborting version of 
panic.  But that would be really confusing...

julia

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