On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 01:16:08PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mardi 08 septembre 2009 à 13:00 +0200, Bjørn Mork a écrit : > > Trusting a library to do all your error handling and cleanup is not good > > style IMHO. In addition to the lack of self-documenting source, it > > often leave you with the meaningless generic error messages some OSes > > are so full of. Applications doing their own error handling are in a > > much better position to provide specific meaningfull error messages to > > the user. > > If a memory allocation failed while you were manipulating strings (an > operation with very low requirements), you are not likely to obtain > enough memory to even display an error message.
You probably still have enough memory available on the stack to handle memory allocation errors on the heap. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
