GMP and assert()

Posted Mar 3, 2019 13:45 UTC (Sun) by hadess (subscriber, #24252)
In reply to: GMP and assert() by intgr
Parent article: GMP and assert()

> Have you ever tried running a GNOME application in a terminal? The majority of them spew errors and warnings left and right; developers seem to just ignore the errors because they are so easy to ignore. No-one bothers reporting them as bugs, although many of them probably are.

They're easy to ignore because most "GNOME applications" aren't launched from a terminal and people rarely read all the errors in the journal when apps otherwise function.

And application developers are thankful for the bug reports, when they happen.

Note that if you feel courageous, you could set "G_DEBUG=fatal_warnings" and all the warnings would make the app crash. Send backtraces!