On 2024-04-01 16:18, Michael Catanzaro via webkit-dev wrote: > Hi, > > Just brainstorming, but I generally think it's worth enabling way more > assertions in production builds to the extent we can do so without > unacceptable performance impact. My ideal would be to rename ASSERT() to > SLOW_ASSERT() and then rename RELEASE_ASSERT() to ASSERT(), to make release > asserts the "default" type of assert. But I'm not ambitious enough to attempt > that. Notably, this would in many cases downgrade the severity of security > bugs, since hitting a RELEASE_ASSERT() is at worst a denial of service issue. > Curious what other WebKit developers think about this. > > Michael
I'm not suggesting this has the same result as what you propose but I think it's worth mentioning the CMake build supports `-DENABLE_ASSERTS` on Release builds now and this was always possible on macOS. _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev
