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Use of assert
Use of assert
Posted Mar 30, 2008 4:53 UTC (Sun) by pjm (subscriber, #2080)In reply to: yet another +5 by pr1268
Parent article: Striking gold in binutils
Incidentally, please don't use or encourage use of ‘assert’ for checking for I/O errors or
other can-happen runtime conditions. Such checks will disappear when compiled with -DNDEBUG
(or conversely make it impractical to compile with -DNDEBUG, thus discouraging use of
assertions), and fail to give a meaningful error message. That should be ‘if (!in_file) {
perror("foo.txt"); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); }’.
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Use of assert
Posted Mar 31, 2008 21:05 UTC (Mon) by pr1268 (subscriber, #24648) [Link]
Well, I had to level the playing field somewhat since Java forces me to put all that code in a try/catch block...
But yeah, I generally do what you recommend in C/C++.