Brian, On 11 September 2009 at 16:54, Brian Gough wrote: | At Thu, 10 Sep 2009 07:55:25 -0500, | Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | > Tough one. SEGV is bad. On the other hand, the GSL RMGs came in a 'framework' | > so there may be numerous entry points. | > | > Brian, any thougths? | | Hello, | | By convention we've never checked whether pointers passed in by the | user are actually non-NULL.
That was my gut feel. Thanks for confirming this. | | This is mainly due to the amount of work in adding these checks | everywhere. | | Also there would be a somewhat arbitrary distinction between functions | where we would check, and those where we wouldn't because they would | add too much overhead. Matthew: Ok if I close this bug report 'as it is a feature' ? Dirk | | -- | Brian Gough | | Network Theory Ltd, | Publishing Free Software Manuals --- http://www.network-theory.co.uk/ | | -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
