Are you trolling me now?
A method that does two different things depending on some magic value /
null flag is a code smell (see Clean Coders if this is not familiar).
Consider this method:
ptr get_mem(string poolname, long bytes) {
If (poolname == NULL)
return malloc(bytes); // MUST be freed
else
The proposal has 0 occurrences of “NULL”.
Andy
On Sun, 24 Dec 2017 at 03:33, Carsten Haitzler wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Dec 2017 11:26:42 + Andrew Williams
> said:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Thanks for posting that poll. Very useful.
> > If I may I wish to contradict your assertion that this has all been
Hi,
Yes invalid access is easier to debug than a memory lean, in general.
In this situation we are talking about the possible consistent memory leaks
vs the occasional (race condition) undefined access. The latter is not
easier to debug.
And if we did find the line at error it would look (using t
You're quit right that document is really more of a checklist. Which now I
look more closely is exactly what they called it too.
Their roadmap document is actually
https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GTK+/Roadmap .
Anyhow for clarity what I feel we are missing in our "roadmap" is:
* What are we aimin
