On 01/20/2010 02:03 PM, Martin Kalbfuß wrote: > Thanks, > > But why is it a disastrous idea? > > When It's a clear programming error, why not abort the program with > g_assert? Because that can cause user data loss. behdad > 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. > > > _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
