From 4aad316bff610c34b6eb047644e616982bdde621 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Diego Biurrun <diego@biurrun.de>
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 15:35:57 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] doc: Remind devs to check return values, especially for
 malloc() et al

---
 doc/developer.texi | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/developer.texi b/doc/developer.texi
index 2e25f5fb0d..d36f53f191 100644
--- a/doc/developer.texi
+++ b/doc/developer.texi
@@ -488,6 +488,10 @@ send a reminder by email. Your patch should eventually be dealt with.
 @item
     Lines with similar content should be aligned vertically when doing so
     improves readability.
+@item
+    Make sure you check the return values of function and return appropriate
+    error codes. Especially memory allocation functions like @code{malloc()}
+    are notoriously left unchecked, which is a serious problem.
 @end enumerate
 
 @section Patch review process