Re: svn commit: r1222522 - /subversion/branches/1.7.x/STATUS

On 2011-12-25 07:00, Branko Čibej wrote:
> On 25.12.2011 01:01, Mark Mielke wrote:
>> Hey all. Just reading and I'm surprised that Subversion uses assert()
>> in production code. I don't think this is typical practice.
>
> You should read my rant about that in this thread. :)

Assertions should never call abort.
Assertions should be just like any error,
possibly providing more information like a call stack.

Like in Python where assertions are just normal exceptions,
which can be caught normally including all call stack information
(which for example in our case are logged into a log file
which a customer can send us. So we get the best of both worlds:
An assert does not crash the app, the app can continue,
but we can still get the callstack information).

Folker
Received on 2011-12-25 10:20:55 CET