Re: Making GModule use GError.
- From: Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>
- To: Tim Janik <timj gtk org>
- Cc: Gtk+ Developers <gtk-devel-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: Making GModule use GError.
- Date: 10 Nov 2000 19:10:52 -0500
Tim Janik <timj gtk org> writes:
> On 8 Nov 2000, Havoc Pennington wrote:
>
> > One note: even if we add the GError, only g_module_open() sensibly
> > needs it; g_module_symbol() can only really fail because the symbol
> > doesn't exist, so returning NULL is fine, and g_module_close() is not
> > very interesting to check errors on.
>
> beeep. wrong answer, you got as many washing machines as you can carry :)
>
> for one, g_module_symbol() already returns success with a boolean
> value, for another, NULL can be returned for a successfully looked
> up symbol so wouldn't be a good error indicator (if that'd be the
> case, it'd already return the value and NULL on error).
>
The relevant point here is that g_module_symbol() has no interesting
errors other than "no such symbol", at least not with the dl*
implementation.
Havoc
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