Re: Making GModule use GError.

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Tim Janik <timj gtk org> writes:
> On 8 Nov 2000, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> > One note: even if we add the GError, only g_module_open() sensibly
> > needs it; g_module_symbol() can only really fail because the symbol
> > doesn't exist, so returning NULL is fine, and g_module_close() is not
> > very interesting to check errors on.
> 
> beeep. wrong answer, you got as many washing machines as you can carry :)
> 
> for one, g_module_symbol() already returns success with a boolean
> value, for another, NULL can be returned for a successfully looked
> up symbol so wouldn't be a good error indicator (if that'd be the
> case, it'd already return the value and NULL on error).
> 

The relevant point here is that g_module_symbol() has no interesting
errors other than "no such symbol", at least not with the dl*
implementation.

Havoc