On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 09:54:01AM +0100, David Henningsson wrote: > On 11/08/2011 09:31 AM, Maarten Bosmans wrote: > >That's exactly why you should compile without asserts enable for > >production builds. > I'm afraid that approach won't work for Ubuntu - there are way too > many cases where we *don't* do proper error handling, and where the > assert is the difference between being able to actually find the bug > (proper stack trace is collected by Ubuntu's bug reporting system > "apport") and horribly failing with a sigsegv somewhere later on > with minimal possibilities to understand what happened. This sounds like apport wants something like the equivalent of the kernel's WARN_ON() support which behaves like an assert in terms of logging and whatnot but is non-fatal.
