Re: [RFC] media: assertion to check that transport exists

[Vinicius Costa Gomes <vinicius.gomes@openbossa.org>]

Hi Luiz,

On 10:43 Fri 16 Dec, Luiz Augusto von Dentz wrote:
> Hi Mikel,
> 
> On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Mikel Astiz <mikel.astiz.oss@gmail.com> wrote:
> > From: Mikel Astiz <mikel.astiz@bmw-carit.de>
> >
> > From my understanding, a transport should exist for any non-disconnected
> > gateway.
> >
> > These assertions sometimes fail though. So I would like to clarify if
> > that's a consistent state in BlueZ or there is some bug.
> > ---
> >  audio/media.c |    3 +++
> >  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/audio/media.c b/audio/media.c
> > index a2ef437..c5fe3d9 100644
> > --- a/audio/media.c
> > +++ b/audio/media.c
> > @@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
> >  #endif
> >
> >  #include <errno.h>
> > +#include <assert.h>
> >
> >  #include <glib.h>
> >  #include <gdbus.h>
> > @@ -620,8 +621,10 @@ static void gateway_state_changed(struct audio_device *dev,
> >                                        gateway_setconf_cb, dev, NULL);
> >                break;
> >        case GATEWAY_STATE_CONNECTED:
> > +               assert(endpoint->transport != NULL);
> >                break;
> >        case GATEWAY_STATE_PLAYING:
> > +               assert(endpoint->transport != NULL);
> >                break;
> >        }
> >  }
> > --
> > 1.7.6.4
> 
> IMO assert on daemon are not that great, it may help while developing
> but why not run with valgrind and let it crash?

This information may help with your worries, from the assert(3) man page:
"If the macro NDEBUG was defined at the moment <assert.h> was last included,
the macro assert() generates no code, and hence does nothing at all."

So we can have assert() do something only when it is compiled in developer mode.

> 
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> Luiz Augusto von Dentz
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Cheers,
-- 
Vinicius