From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Cc: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, git@jeffhostetler.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Introduce BUG_ON(cond, msg) MACRO
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 19:10:48 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171123001048.GA9465@sigill> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171123000839.GL11671@aiede.mtv.corp.google.com>
On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 04:08:39PM -0800, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> > For the record, I'm totally fine with banning assert() in favor of a
> > custom equivalent. I just don't think we've seen any real problems with
> > assert in our codebase so far.
>
> It sounds like we basically agree, then. :)
Yeah, I didn't quite understand your argument at first. If it's that
asserts are potentially dangerous, I buy that. They haven't bit us, but
they could.
That would be a good thing for Stefan to put in his commit message. ;)
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-23 0:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-22 22:38 [PATCH 0/3] Introduce BUG_ON(cond, msg) MACRO Stefan Beller
2017-11-22 22:38 ` [PATCH 1/3] Documentation/CodingGuidelines: explain why assert is bad Stefan Beller
2017-11-22 22:59 ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-11-22 23:08 ` Stefan Beller
2017-11-22 23:54 ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-11-22 22:38 ` [PATCH 2/3] git-compat: introduce BUG_ON(condition, fmt, ...) macro Stefan Beller
2017-11-22 23:02 ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-11-22 23:37 ` Jeff King
2017-11-22 22:38 ` [PATCH 3/3] contrib/coccinelle: convert all conditional bugs to bug_on Stefan Beller
2017-11-22 23:24 ` [PATCH 0/3] Introduce BUG_ON(cond, msg) MACRO Jeff King
2017-11-22 23:28 ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-11-22 23:39 ` Jeff King
2017-11-22 23:45 ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-11-22 23:58 ` Jeff King
2017-11-23 0:08 ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-11-23 0:10 ` Jeff King [this message]
2017-11-23 1:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-11-23 5:00 ` Jeff King
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