[Bf-committers] Some words about a strange thing named "coding-rules"

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

All our current platforms crash Blender nicely on referencing a NULL  
pointer. I've not heard of OS's crashing for it. How Morphos does this  
I don't know...

I do realize that every routine in Blender should not fail on mallocs,  
but this is very painful coding for more complex areas (like render  
system). Typically, a system already has been swapped totally unusable  
before it starts returning NULLs, and a user already killed Blender. :)

-Ton-


On 24 Nov, 2005, at 9:44, Yomgui wrote:

> Hi to all Blender developers,
>
> During my port of Blender on MorphOS and a try to bring to blender a
> nice OS abstraction layer, I've seen some ugly code lines. So, I want
> to advise all developers about that:
>
> MEM_mallocN/MEM_callocN and all derivated, declared in
> intern/guardedalloc/mallocn.c, may return a null pointer (0) in some
> cases (i.e. not enough memory), but...
>
> ... I seen too many files that use these functions without any
> checking of the return value!
>
> The result of the usage of a null pointer is totally platform
> dependent, and may cause the whole crash of the platform in the worst
> case (I think that there is no best case ;-))
>
> So please, can you check your code and design it to handle this case?
> It's very important to have a good and clean software.
>
> Many thanks for your attention,
> Guillaume R.
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