Re: assert() vs. return(error)

Daniel Berlin wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 15:13 +0000, Julian Foad wrote:
>>Stuart Celarier wrote:
>>
>>>The rest of the C world uses the assert macro to compile assertions in
>>>to the debug version, and to remove assertions in the release version.
[...]
>>
>>You're over-simplifying.
>
> He's also wrong.
> GCC, for example, specifically keeps asserts on in the release builds

Does it? <searching...> Aaargh! I've just spent twenty minutes searching for
any documentation that says that GCC does that. Now I realise you mean the GCC
developers keep asserts on when building GCC.

Yes, sure, some people do that.

- Julian

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Received on Tue Feb 14 17:25:28 2006