Re: return value checking for GTK APIs

[Olexiy Avramchenko <ath beast stu cn ua>]

brahmaiah vallabhaneni wrote:

> Hi All,
> I am new to Linux GUI programming and started going
> through the tutorial.
>
> But I have observed one strange coding style (to me).
> Usually, when we call a function say malloc, we 
> always validate the return value before it's use.
>
> But in GTK samples, they do n't check the return
> value of APIs. Any specific reason ?
If you're talking about g_malloc*() (or another functions based on it) - 
yes,
there's one good reason - it will terminate your app with an error message
if memory allocation fail.

Olexiy