Re: [Libvisual-devel] New input plugin: mplayer

[Dennis S. <sy...@yo...>]

> > Btw, please don't do too much NULL checking within the plugins. If
> > someone goes wrong all down at this layer something is majorly borked
> > within libvisual itself or the user is creating hacky code. The
> > abstraction system, VisInput, VisMorph, VisActor do handle most of the
> > situations. Thanks anyway ;)
> 
> That's why I always do NULL checking, to know if there's something wrong. If 
> everbody code it right we are not humans... so errors may appear and better 
> catch them as soon as possible.
> 
> Since most of segfaults are caused by null pointers I think worth checking for 
> them always...

Well it's ok with me, but I always used a kinda 'don't do too much
check at the low level' because at that layer it should JUST WORK
or die hard (and be reported) *hehe*. But then again, it's ok with me!

Cheers,
Dennis