On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 6:30 AM, Amos Jeffries <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 17/02/18 22:59, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
>> On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 4:35 AM, Niels Möller wrote:
>>> ...
>>>> ...
>>> It's not right to use assert on expressions with side-effects. Since will
>>> break builds with ./configure CFLAGS='-DNDEBUG'.
>>
>> No asserts, period. They should not get through an audit.
>
> This is the QA code for testing. Asserting that it works correctly and
> aborting to fail the test ASAP is the whole purpose of these.
My bad, I should have said:
No asserts in production, period
I use them prodigiously during development. Everything is validated
with an assert. I usually don't have to debug because the asserts
debug for me. My code can't fart or sneeze without me knowing about
it.
But production is a different story.... The time for debugging is over...
Jeff
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