Re: Memory allocation troubles

[Paul Pogonyshev <pogonyshev gmx net>]

Tristan Van Berkom wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 02:00:29 +0300, Paul Pogonyshev <pogonyshev gmx net> wrote:
> [...]
> > Oh, I just remembered that you can use your own malloc() implementation
> > with Glib/GTK+!  So, while this doesn't solve your problem out of the box,
> > you can do something like this:
>
> This doesn't help, 
>      gtk+ is written with the assumption that its all-or-nothing
> (memory available
> or abort), so even if your implementation of malloc returns NULL
> (which I think is
> asserted anyway outside your implementation) then you'd have functions like
> g_object_new() segfaulting instead of returning NULL (i.e. someone in
> gtk_something_init() will allocate something, fail, access it and segfault).

Did you even care to read the function?  It could never return NULL.

Paul