Re: Check return of function

[Kleber Tarcísio]

Hi Alexei,

I'm not expert in this system, but I think that it is not a good pratice. Sorry if i caused any misunderstanding.

Kleber

Em quinta-feira, 20 de agosto de 2020 16:43:47 BRT, Alexei Podtelezhnikov <apodtele@gmail.com> escreveu:

Kleber,

Why would you prefer uninitialized t42size->ttsize to NULL? Please
answer this question.

Alexei

On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 3:20 PM Kleber Tarcísio
<klebertarcisio@yahoo.com.br> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I appreciate your attention!
>
> Today the code is like this:
>
>    error = FT_New_Size( t42face->ttf_face, &ttsize );
>    t42size->ttsize = ttsize;
>    FT_Activate_Size( ttsize );
>
>  My initial suggestion was:
>
>    error = FT_New_Size( t42face->ttf_face, &ttsize );
>    if(error)
>        return error;
>    t42size->ttsize = ttsize;
>    FT_Activate_Size( ttsize );
>
> However, I observed that if ttsize is NULL, FT_Activate_Size function will throw an exception. Great
> In this case, what do you think about this another change?
>
>    error = FT_New_Size( t42face->ttf_face, &ttsize );
>    if(!error)
>        t42size->ttsize = ttsize;
>    FT_Activate_Size( ttsize );
>
> Regards
>
> Kleber
>
> Em quinta-feira, 20 de agosto de 2020 16:17:27 BRT, Alexei Podtelezhnikov <apodtele@gmail.com> escreveu:
>
>
> You need to reply to the list.

>


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