> And one more question, in the samples and the library itself many places in
> the
> code looks like this:
>
> RTSPClient* rtspClient = ourRTSPClient::createNew(env, rtspURL,
> RTSP_CLIENT_VERBOSITY_LEVEL, progName);
>
> if (rtspClient == NULL) {
>
> createNew() just a wrapper over the standard operator new (not overloaded,
> not a
> `nothrow` version). But according the c++ standard operator new is never
> return
> NULL, but throws bad_alloc on error. Why we need to check the return value?
Yes, you're correct - in this case, the test for "rtspClient == NULL" is not
needed, and could be removed.
Note, however, that not all "createNew()" functions are simply wrappers around
operator new. "RTSPServer::createNew()", for example, is not.
Ross Finlayson
Live Networks, Inc.
http://www.live555.com/
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