Re: turning g_assert* into warnings

[Tim Janik <timj imendio com>]

On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Owen Taylor wrote:

> On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 11:52 +0200, Tim Janik wrote:
>
> > i'd like to propose to turn g_assert and friends like g_assert_not_reached
> > into warnings instead of errors. i'll give a bit of background before the
> > details though.
>
> This is an incompatible change. The contract now is that unless you
> compile with G_DISABLE_ASSERT, g_assert(FALSE) will cause your program
> to exit with a non-zero status.

i don't think a function contract is anything worth if it depends on
build time options. if there is any contract breach here, it was the
introduction of G_DISABLE_ASSERT (Thu Feb 19 01:11:48 1998 in gtk+-0.99.4 ;)

however, due to the g_warn_if_fail variant having quite a following,
i intend to change my proposal anyway. so persuing this argument is
moot.

> - Owen

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