Re: g_assert vs. g_return_if_fail

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Thanks,

But why is it a disastrous idea?

When It's a clear programming error, why not abort the program with
g_assert?

Am Mittwoch, den 20.01.2010, 12:23 -0500 schrieb Behdad Esfahbod:
> On 01/20/2010 12:28 PM, Martin Kalbfuß wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I don't understand the need for g_return_if_fail like functions. Why not
> > use g_assert here?
> > 
> > In pure C, I used either assert for programming errors or returned an
> > error indicator for expected errors. But where to use g_return_if_fail?
> 
> g_assert aborts the process, g_return_if_fail() doesn't.  It's a disastrous
> idea to g_assert() in a library for example.
> 
> 
> 
> behdad
> 
> 
> > Thanks.


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