[Insight-developers] SmartPointer null check

[Matt McCormick]

Hi Miklos,

In my humble opinion, it would be too much of a computational burden,
and it usually indicates a logic bug in the code, not something a GUI
user would create.

Thanks,
Matt

On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Miklos Espak <espakm at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> would it be possible to make a NULL check in itk::SmartPointer::operator->
> and operator* ?
> I thought an std::runtime_error (or derivant) could be thrown if m_Pointer
> is 0. In this way the application would not crash on null pointer
> dereference but it could be caught from a GUI eventually. That could spare a
> lot of null checks in the code.
> Sorry, if this is a recurring topic of discussion or it is already
> implemented in ITK 4.0. I use 3.20.0 as part of MITK.
> Best regards,
> Miklos Espak
>
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