[Opendnssec-develop] About assert()...

[Yuri Schaeffer]

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> But what if something did call it with NULL, there might be a 
> situation where the system is temporarily out of memory or that is 
> was called from an untested code path or some other strange 
> situation.

Not a good argument. You should only use assertions when you are sure
they will _never_ fail whereas you use a regular check if it could
_possibly_ fail.

> Is it then our praxis, our coding standard to have the program just
> die? I’d really hope not.

I'm sorry I am in favour of dying. You might have a point that
some/many assertions need to be revised. But I see no objections of
using asserts where appropriate. It is a debugging tool, it has
nothing to do with error handling.

//Yuri

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