On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 2:59 PM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > In a certain ideal world, the preference would be reversed: you'd want > to use assert() wherever you can and require the compiler to check > that all assert()s are verifiable at compile time. A check that a > static analyzer can verify is more valuable than a run-time check. > When a compile-time check is not possible, you'd have to fall back to > BUG_ON(). Linux has BUILT_BUG_ON as well, which we may desire?
