Completion of error handling

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
c, r
Domain
data

Research direction

Start with the linked locations in src/fread.c around line 416 and src/fmelt.c around line 300, then inspect the clock and malloc calls named in the issue. Identify the relevant return values that lack error handling and define completion as handling the applicable failures consistently.

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Description

internals

Would you like to add more error handling for return values from functions like the following?

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