[Scummvm-devel] SCI mem functions

[Johannes Schickel]

Rafał Rzepecki schrieb:
> Well, many (including myself) would argue that if malloc() fails, it _should_ 
> crash and it should crash hard, given there's nothing you can really do about 
> it. (So IMHO if anything we should make sure it'd always crash instead of 
> freezing -- and indeed on platforms where there is nothing to crash _to_ -- 
> perhaps there should be some kind of a wrapper to give the user some crash 
> feedback. But that should really be platform-specific; I'm pretty much against 
> clobbering core code with assumption that malloc could fail.)
>   

If malloc (or in general any memory allocation fails) it should be tried 
to do some error handling, at least a hard crash is the worst you can do 
for an user. As a user I would find it pretty bad when a program crashes 
without any word, just because I am out of memory.

// Johannes