On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 11:09, Gaetano Mendola wrote: > "Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I see no value at all in an assert. The code will dump core just fine > > with or without an assert ... > > Right but an assert can display information about the file and line number > without debug the application
I think the percentage of deployments that enable assertions (which causes a runtime performance hit) but NOT debugging info (which does not) is pretty small. ISTM that checking for non-NULL pointers is pretty pointless: just because a pointer happens to be non-NULL doesn't mean it is any more valid, and dereferencing a NULL pointer is easy enough to track down in any case. -Neil ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
