Marc Lehmann wrote:
If you want double-checking, you could use a language better suited for learning, such as Perl: the Perl interface to libev (EV) actively checks for these cases (actually, perl does), as it manages initialisation for you (actually by not letting you initialise). In general, C is a difficult language, as it doesn't check your data (or your pointers) for validity, or tells you when you access iuninitialised memory etc.
This is so nineties, seriously :)C is not a difficult language at all, and it doesn't have to be. A well written well structured library should give the programmer assertions that the code is still sane, and when you are on a critical performance path, you should be able to make the assertions disappear using a #define.
Performance means nothing whatsoever if the code is unreliable, and if your code doesn't help my code be reliable, a point is reached when the library collapses under it's own weight:
man assert Regards, Graham --
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