[slang-users] C Structure help ...

Michael Noble mnoble at space.mit.edu
Fri Jun 8 10:37:17 EDT 2007


> What is the diff between using malloc / calloc / free versus
> SLmalloc, SLcalloc and SLfree ?

The S-Lang versions ensure that SLang_Error reflects any error
that may have arisen.  For example, this would enable an out of
memory condition to be thrown as a S-Lang error and then
detected/caught in S-Lang scope, instead of having the process
creep along in some undefined state.

-Mike


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