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Subject:	Re: Design by Contract (long post)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.robotics.rcx
Date:	Sat, 10 Jan 2004 10:24:28 GMT
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Thanks, Tim.

I haven’t used the #x idiom myself - I like it. Your implementation with the boolean:

#ifdef NDEBUG
#define assert(x) ((void)0)
#else
#define assert(x)                                           \
    static bool bIsDisabled = false;                        \
    if (x)                                                  \
    {}                                                      \
    else                                                    \
    {                                                       \
        if(!bIsDisabled)                                    \
        {                                                   \
            assert_fail(__FILE__,__LINE__,#x,&bIsDisabled); \
        }                                                   \
    }
#endif

Will need an extra level of parenthesis surrounding the bool so that its declaration scope is made local.

You can certainly go to town with this stuff. At work, we are spoiled - we are developing on a Linux target. So actually, we never turn the asserts off. When developing (!NDEBUG) the assert behaves as discussed. For final test and field operation (NDEBUG) The condition is still checked, and a syslog message is generated. It can be fun writing the defensive code that tries to get the machine back to a sane state :)

Iain.

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		Re: Design by Contract (long post)
(...) For more fun with asserts: See if your compiler supports the FILE and LINE macros (or something equivilant). #ifdef NDEBUG #define assert(x) ((void)0) #else #define assert(x) if (x) else assertfail(FILE,LINE); #endif your assert_fail function (...) (21 years ago, 9-Jan-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx, FTX)

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