Re: [RFC] Replacement for "assert" in the libraries

David Glasser wrote:
> I do think that there is value in having a way of assert/aborting from
> anywhere in the code (not just svn_error_t-returning functions) which
> can't be ignored accidentally by forgetting to write SVN_ERR and
> friends. Additionally, assert/abort generally gives good stack traces
> when run in gdb, whereas it's trickier to track down the source of our
> error objects.
>

We should rewrite everything in C++ and throw exceptions!

I'm almost serious. The trouble is that, when I tried compiling
Subversion as it is with a C++ compiler, I ran into a ton of problems,
not the least of which was using variables called "new" ... I estimate
that the code churn would be less than trivial.

-- Brane

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Received on 2008-06-14 01:48:46 CEST