Re: Joy of this, Joy of that

On Fri, 22 Nov 2024 18:53:28 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

All my programs contain a routine called quit_cleanup(); it takes a
single argument, which is either an error message or NULL.
It frees all allocated memory, closes any open files, etc.

But all that is unnecessary if your program is terminating anyway.

In *nix C code, a common convention is

    if («call failed»)
      {
        perror(«doing what»);
        exit(«nonzero error code»);
      } /*if*/

<https://manpages.debian.org/3/perror.3.en.html>