From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jes Sorensen Subject: Re: [PATCH kvm-unit-tests 2/4] Introduce a C++ wrapper for the kvm APIs Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 18:43:16 +0100 Message-ID: <4CED4EB4.7000109@redhat.com> References: <1290595933-13122-1-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com> <1290595933-13122-3-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com> <50DD1E97-0ECD-41E6-B6F8-1D78AA4A4876@suse.de> <4CED2416.1040102@codemonkey.ws> <20101124154006.GE15111@redhat.com> <4CED344B.3030000@codemonkey.ws> <4CED3FE6.50900@redhat.com> <4CED41A0.8060003@redhat.com> <4CED4276.9090103@redhat.com> <4CED445E.30105@redhat.com> <4CED4629.2060804@redhat.com> <4CED4738.2020406@redhat.com> <4CED488D.40806@redhat.com> <4CED4B0E.3030805@codemonkey.ws> <4CED4D36.3060708@redhat.com> <4CED4E5C.5020602@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Anthony Liguori , Gleb Natapov , Alexander Graf , Marcelo Tosatti , kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Avi Kivity Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:15625 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753051Ab0KXRnW (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Nov 2010 12:43:22 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4CED4E5C.5020602@redhat.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 11/24/10 18:41, Avi Kivity wrote: > On 11/24/2010 07:36 PM, Jes Sorensen wrote: >> On 11/24/10 18:27, Anthony Liguori wrote: >> >> > The compiler won't generate an error. Only upon a call to >> > file_release() will a null pointer dereference happens whereas in C++, >> > because this paradigm is structured in the language, the compiler can >> > help assist you. >> >> Explicit code means you know what is going on, it means you can debug it >> in gdb and match it. That is a *good* thing! > > Implicit code means that you don't need to debug it. The compiler gets > it right every time. Except when it doesn't, or when you don't know why something happened and you ended up where you did.... Jes