[Kst] extragear/graphics/kst/src/libkstmath

[George Staikos]

On Monday 10 July 2006 13:35, Duncan Hanson wrote:
> thanks for the explanation barth.
>
> devel-docs/codingstyle.txt forbids us from using c++ exceptions- how
> should we check for allocing errors?

  In general you don't need to.  Even if you catch memory errors, in most 
cases you cannot safely recover without crashing.  Linux also generally lies 
and tells you you can allocate memory even when it's not available.  The only 
case that will regularly fail is very large allocations in tight memory 
conditions.  In this case, we have KST::malloc() and friends.  I don't think 
they need to be used anywhere though.  If we can malloc when we read the 
data, we'll be able to malloc later.  That's the only place that should be 
concerned with checking failures.  Even then, it doesn't really work which is 
why we have a heuristic to guess if we should fail or not.

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