Re: abort or assert?

Julian Foad <julianfoad@btopenworld.com> writes:

> In most of the places where we currently say:
>
> if (blah) abort();
>
> I feel we should be saying:
>
> assert(!blah);
>
> There may be some reasons to abort() in a few cases, such as to avoid
> possible data loss. If I prepare a patch to convert to assert() where
> it seems appropriate, perhaps someone could review it with this in
> mind.

I'm going to take the opportunity to learn something new, at the risk
of demonstrating a hole in my C knowledge.

What are the differences between these two approaches? You noted
"possible data loss". How so?

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Received on Tue Nov 9 16:57:36 2004