From: Markus Elfring <markus.elfring@web.de>
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:42:58 GMT
Subject: Re: Completion of error handling
Message-ID: <4B688042.8090400@web.de>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1002021424550.1681@xanadu.home>


> 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