Re: .Net Exceptions

From: Joerg Jooss (joerg.jooss_at_gmx.net)
Date: 09/19/04 

Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 16:19:47 +0200

cody wrote:

> Did you read my example with the soundcomponent? If it tries to
> allocate a too large soundbuffer, an OutOfMemoryException will occur.
> But why should the rest of my application care about that? Since the
> request to allocate the large soundbuffer failed, we have still
> enough memory. We have no background music playing but we are far far
> away from trouble.

So waht? You still blindly assume that you know that a buffer cannot be
allocated because the allocation size is too big. You just don't know that.
It may be a reasonable assumption in your special case, but that hardly
translates to a general approach.

Cheers, 

-- 
Joerg Jooss
joerg.jooss@gmx.net

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