On Wed, 03.09.08 11:08, rdiezmail-pulseaudio at yahoo.de (rdiezmail-pulseaudio at yahoo.de) wrote: > I think the main issue with regards to assertions is the lack of > information. I would add some clear statement along these lines > to the build instructions: > > ------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------ > > By default, PA is built with assertions turned on. This helps find > bugs in PA itself and carries a small performance and code size > penalty. PA can nevertheless be built without assertions (with > NDEBUG), they are not needed for normal operation (the standard > error handling does not rely on assertions either). > > ------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------ > > This way, all the mistrust from perhaps old buggy times would be > once and for all laid to rest, and that for everybody (including > future newcomers): I am not sure if there really is an "issue" with assertions. However, the PA web site is a wiki, everyone is welcome to edit it! Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4
