Subject: Re: Completion of error handling

From: Markus Elfring <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:42:58 +0100

> At least on Linux, most of those functions simply cannot fail.

Would you like to support software environments that work without a
famous out-of-memory killer?

> There is just no dynamic memory allocation involved.
>   

I find this opinion strange.

> All other errors are normally due to bad code.
>   

I suggest to avoid unchecked function calls.
Would you like to detect every error situation as early as possible?

Regards,
Markus