[cairo] error handling questions

Carl Worth cworth at cworth.org
Thu Jul 5 07:08:41 PDT 2007


On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 11:01:00 +0100, Bill Spitzak wrote:
> Depending on the error this could be pointers to string constants (this
> would be a requirement for out-of-memory), or a buffer allocated and
> belonging to the cairo_t. I would think some function would be used to
> retrieve the error:
>
> const char* cairo_error_string(cairo_t);

That's been there for a long time, (and it does return a pointer to a
string constant). See:

	const char *
	cairo_status_to_string (cairo_status_t status);

-Carl
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