Re: to be effcient or not to be efficient

On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Enrico Weigelt wrote:

>* Tuukka Toivonen <[email protected]> [2004-01-08 21:05:36 +0200]:
>> - 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
>Well, in a debuggin build, we could also replace all NULL pointers
>by dummy calls

No! It's much easier to find bugs when the program really segfaults;
the developer might not notice a message on console especially
for GUI programs and a segfault forces him to fix the bug instead
of postponing and forgetting whole thing.

And I was not talking about developers but end users. End users don't want
debugging compiled in, but they do want a program that doesn't segfault.