On 24/08/2016, Matt Benjamin wrote: > Mark Nelson called attention to this topic again yesterday in #ceph-devel. > > We favor retaining the ability to re-declare specific asserts such that they are, as with assert in general historically, compiled out. I think it's reasonable if this is a marked case. > > That seems to imply that if ceph_assert is the unmarked case, it won't be compiled out, so is essentially ceph_assert_always, as below (or else that form should be used...it's a little long). If we want to go for brevity, we could have ceph_assert() be the unmarked case that functions just like assert macro. Then we could use something like ceph_demand() (ceph_ultimatum? ceph_blackmail?) to indicate the case that isn't compiled out. Personally, I would just like to get rid of Ceph's assert.h and its unending war with every other header file in the world. At one point killed off the header and linked in an object that overrode __assert_fail. This worked very well, though it would require handling every C library implementation we're compiled against. -- Senior Software Engineer Red Hat Storage, Ann Arbor, MI, US IRC: Aemerson@{RedHat, OFTC, Freenode} 0x80F7544B90EDBFB9 E707 86BA 0C1B 62CC 152C 7C12 80F7 544B 90ED BFB9 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html