Re: to be effcient or not to be efficient

Enrico Weigelt <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.multimedia.media-api
Message-ID <[email protected]>
* Tuukka Toivonen <[email protected]> [2004-01-08 21:05:36 +0200]:

<snip>
> - You might not care about possible errors, and in that case no
>   checks are necessary at all if non-NULL pointers are guaranteed
>   (it's also safer: some buggy code might not check for NULL
>   pointers but just call directly a function that is usually
>   implemented anyway, with dummy pointers no harm is done,
>   but with NULL function pointer there would be a segfault).

Well, in a debuggin build, we could also replace all NULL pointers
by dummy calls, so they can report such errors w/ a nice warning
message and try to recover whats possible.


cu
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