From: Mike Nordell (tamlin@algonet.se)
Date: Thu Apr 18 2002 - 01:36:23 EDT
Andrew Dunbar wrote:
> One place I particularly wish we had many more asserts
> is in our importers. We regularly receive crash
> reports when somebody tries to load a foreign file
> with features our importers don't support. We just
> don't have much sanity checking here. Especially in
> MSWord which is a binary format. In fact for
> importers
> even asserts are not enough since we really want to
> prevent crashing no matter how mangled a file might
> be.
Perhaps another reason to reopen the discussion of using C++ like more than
a glorified C? Exceptions?
/Mike
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