String literals, ASCII vs UTF-8

[Michael Meeks]

On Tue, 2012-02-28 at 14:48 +0100, Lubos Lunak wrote:
>  Speaking of the size at the call-site, I good part is the code trying to 
> throw std::bad_alloc in case the allocation fails. That actually looks rather 
> useless to me, for several reasons:
> 
> - not all OUString methods check for this anyway
> - rtl_uString* functions do OSL_ASSERT() after allocations
> - with today's systems (overcommitting, etc.) it is rather pointless to guard 
> against allocation failures
> 
>  Does somebody see a good reason not to just remove it?

	Not me :-) I'd love to kill that cruft. Of course, on the very rare
occasions that we do a huge allocation for a string - perhaps we store
an entire VBA module in a single string or something silly ;-) which
might reasonably fail, then no doubt we could use the native C method,
and act accordingly if it failed.

	So - I'd love to remove this compound source of bloat and if we're
indeed deeply worried about out of memory crashes, then doing a better
job of logging and journaling user input as it's entered so we can
replay it later if necessary ;-)

	ATB,

		Michael.

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