Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> schrieb am Mo., 9. Okt. 2017 um 08:19 Uhr:

> Philipp Stephani wrote:
> > I don't think Jansson can use xmalloc because xmalloc can exit
> nonlocally,
> > which is not expected by a third-party library such as Jansson. It could
> > use a suitable wrapper of lmalloc, though.
>
> That would be overkill, as lmalloc arranges for Lisp alignment, which
> Jansson
> does not need. We could define new functions (smalloc and srealloc, say),
> that
> act like malloc and realloc except they return NULL for requests larger
> than
> PTRDIFF_MAX. Right now, I expect only the JSON code needs this sort of
> thing so
> we could put the new functions in json.c. If other code needs it later we
> could
> move these new functions to alloc.c.
>

Yes, that sounds reasonable.