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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: About memory allocation failures....
From:       Guillaume Laurent <glaurent () telegraph-road ! org>
Date:       2002-01-30 15:04:46
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On Wednesday 30 January 2002 15:51, Schmidt, John wrote:
> I think you need to reread Alex's comments, the performance penalty he
> mentions
> is when you do try {...} catch {...} block, not simply doing an if check
> for NULL
> on a malloc().

Yes, but this is C++ so, as it was said several times already :

- we don't use malloc(), but 'new'
- 'new' never returns null, it throws.

>  If you do NOT check for NULL and subsequently try to write
> to the
> storage addressed from your NULL pointer, this is what you get:

I'm pretty confident everybody here knows what happens when you dereference a 
null ptr, thank you.

Now I suggest we end this thread here, as all that was worth saying has been 
said.

-- 
Guillaume
http://www.telegraph-road.org
 
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