[Cbe-oss-dev] [PATCH] make arguments 64 big unconditionally

[Joel Schopp]

>> +    errno = ENOMEM;
> 
> I think setting errno is wrong here and the other places.  calloc and
> malloc and realloc are not documented to change errno in C99, just
> NULL or a valid memory location.
> 

I guess it depends on which standard you read:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/malloc.html

As near as I can tell some standards don't mention errno one way or the other, and 
thus it doesn't violate the standards to use it.  Meanwhile other standards require 
errno to be set to certain values in certain conditions.  Thus in order to follow all 
standards requires setting errno.