Re: [PATCH v3 04/11] Rephrase assertion section

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> 
> > On 12 Feb 2018, at 17:58, Frediano Ziglio <fziglio@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > In SPICE, as in Glib, ERROR is more "strong" than CRITICAL
> > (I don't know where this came, even in Solaris CRITICAL is more
> > strong like Linux, maybe an initial mistake).
> > By default CRITICAL is fatal (it calls abort) so ERROR is too.
> 
> I’ve not tested with the agent, but I know that for spicy, I regularly get
> “CRITICAL” about assertions without an abort:
> 
> (spicy:53020): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_get: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT
> (object)' failed
> (spicy:53020): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion
> 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
> 
> If the desired behavior is an abort, we are not configuring it properly.
> 
> 
> Christophe
> 

But this is a CRITICAL in spicy, not a ERROR in the server.
By default g_critical is not fatal, spice_critical yes.
Both g_error and spice_error are fatal.

Frediano

> > 
> >>> I agree, asserts should not be used as needed runtime checks.
> >> 
> >> I’ll add that to the next writeup.
> >> 
> > 
> 
> 
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