Re: assert

[Matt Benjamin <mbenjamin@redhat.com>]

Ok, that's fair, I guess.  If a given C runtime lacks something compatible, do we then need to do for that environment exactly what we would otherwise do in general?

Matt

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Adam C. Emerson" <aemerson@redhat.com>
> To: "Yehuda Sadeh-Weinraub" <ysadehwe@redhat.com>
> Cc: "Sage Weil" <sweil@redhat.com>, "Matt Benjamin" <mbenjamin@redhat.com>, "John Spray" <jspray@redhat.com>, "Ceph
> Development" <ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org>, "Mark Nelson" <mnelson@redhat.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2016 1:10:00 PM
> Subject: Re: assert
> 
> On 24/08/2016, Yehuda Sadeh-Weinraub wrote:
> > Will that work on any system we compile on?
> 
> Yes and no. As given it will work on GNU libc. For FreeBSD we would
> need to change the name of the function we chunk in to __assert and
> the order of arguments is different. So, to do it portably, we'd need
> a shim for each C library we're ported to. There aren't /that/ many C
> libraries in the world so it's not a difficult thing to make work, but
> it is a bit fiddly.
> 
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