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Re: Completion of error handling

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MEMarkus Elfring <markus.elfring@web.de>
Date
Feb 2, 2010, 19:42 UTC
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> At least on Linux, most of those functions simply cannot fail.

Would you like to support software environments that work without a famous out-of-memory killer?

> There is just no dynamic memory allocation involved.
>   
I find this opinion strange.
> All other errors are normally due to bad code.
>

I suggest to avoid unchecked function calls. Would you like to detect every error situation as early as possible?

Regards, Markus

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  1. Markus ElfringFeb 2, 2010
  2. Nicolas PitreFeb 2, 2010
  3. Markus ElfringFeb 2, 2010
  4. Nicolas PitreFeb 2, 2010
  5. Markus ElfringFeb 2, 2010
  6. Avery PennarunFeb 2, 2010
  7. Markus ElfringFeb 2, 2010
  8. Avery PennarunFeb 2, 2010
  9. Markus ElfringFeb 2, 2010
  10. Avery PennarunFeb 2, 2010
  11. Markus ElfringFeb 2, 2010
  12. Markus ElfringFeb 11, 2010
  13. Andreas EricssonFeb 16, 2010
  14. Markus ElfringFeb 18, 2010

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