[haiku-development] Re: possible bad usage of "new" in haiku
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 12:12:24 +0100 CET
Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx> wrote:
> If you spot usage of new without std::nothrow in applications and
> preflets,
> I would not report all those, just within the kits. Otherwise we
> would be
> overwelmed with the reports. One more question though: What about
> "new
> BMessage"? AFAIU, BMessage has a custom allocator? Can nothrow be
> ommited
> there?
Yes, it must not be used there.
"new BMessage" can actually return NULL, and doesn't throw any
exceptions. Looking at BBlockCache, I doubt this class has much use
anymore, though; it's doesn't look to do better than our default
allocator.
Bye,
Axel.
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