<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>And one more question, in the samples and the library itself many places in the<br>code looks like this:<br><br> RTSPClient* rtspClient = ourRTSPClient::createNew(env, rtspURL,<br>RTSP_CLIENT_VERBOSITY_LEVEL, progName);<br><br> if (rtspClient == NULL) {<br><br>createNew() just a wrapper over the standard operator new (not overloaded, not a<br>`nothrow` version). But according the c++ standard operator new is never return<br>NULL, but throws bad_alloc on error. Why we need to check the return value? <br></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div>Yes, you're correct - in this case, the test for "rtspClient == NULL" is not needed, and could be removed.<div><br></div><div>Note, however, that not all "createNew()" functions are simply wrappers around operator new. "RTSPServer::createNew()", for example, is not.</div><br><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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