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authorFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2000-06-30 17:58:34 (GMT)
committerFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2000-06-30 17:58:34 (GMT)
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Small grammatical correction from Frank Stajano. Added comment with
suggestion from Frank for an example and further explanation.
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@@ -1398,7 +1398,8 @@ references generally return \NULL{} only to indicate that an
exception occurred. The reason for not testing for \NULL{}
arguments is that functions often pass the objects they receive on to
other function --- if each function were to test for \NULL{},
-there would be a lot of redundant tests and the code would run slower.
+there would be a lot of redundant tests and the code would run more
+slowly.
It is better to test for \NULL{} only at the ``source'', i.e.\ when a
pointer that may be \NULL{} is received, e.g.\ from
@@ -1422,7 +1423,13 @@ These guarantees don't hold when you use the ``old'' style
calling convention --- this is still found in much existing code.}
It is a severe error to ever let a \NULL{} pointer ``escape'' to
-the Python user.
+the Python user.
+
+% Frank Stajano:
+% A pedagogically buggy example, along the lines of the previous listing,
+% would be helpful here -- showing in more concrete terms what sort of
+% actions could cause the problem. I can't very well imagine it from the
+% description.
\section{Writing Extensions in \Cpp{}