Re: [PATCH kvm-unit-tests 2/4] Introduce a C++ wrapper for the kvm APIs

Jes Sorensen
2010-11-24T17:43:22Z

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