[Kst] new return codes...

George Staikos staikos at kde.org
Thu Jan 8 18:54:06 CET 2004


On Thursday 08 January 2004 12:51, Andrew Walker wrote:
> To respond to the following:
> > FYI there is no need to check for null return codes from operator new. 
> > It will just throw an exception or crash soon after anyway.  That's the
>
> reason
>
> > for the big invisible change in kstlegend.
>
> I'm not sure that I agree with this. If all new return codes are checked
> and the code implemented carefully there is no reason that the user should
> not be able to save and exit Kst gracefully under low memory conditions.
> This should at least be the goal, whether or not it is achieved is another
> thing. It seems counterproductive to deliberately not check the return
> codes.

  It will crash withing kdelibs or qt then.  Also if it throws an exception 
you have no chance anyway.

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