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From: Sandy Harris sharris@fox...
Subject: acme buglet
Date: Sat, 4 Nov 1995 02:03:03 -0500

Scott Schwartz  <schwartz@gal...> wrote:

>Rob sent me a different patch for that bug.  Here it is.
>
>fix in util.l:
>
>byte*
>runetobyte(Rune *r, int n)
>{
>	byte *s;
>
>>	if(n == 0)
>>		return nil;
>	s = malloc(n*UTFmax+1);
>	snprint(s, n*UTFmax+1, "%.*S", n, r);
>	return s;
>}
What does this do if the malloc() fails?
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