Julian Foad wrote on Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 17:01:33 +0100:
> Bert Huijben wrote:
>
> > you could just use
> > assert(svn_relpath_is_canonical(base_relpath)); for a debug only check. (or
> > SVN_ERR_ASSERT() if you also want to slow down release versions)
>
> The policy is: always use 'SVN_ERR_ASSERT' rather than 'assert' (in functions
> that return svn_error_t).
>
> Of course he doesn't "want to slow down" Subversion.
>
> The choice between 'assert' and 'SVN_ERR_ASSERT' should be based on whether
> we want an application program to be able to catch such a failure. We long
> ago decided that the answer is YES we do want to write our library functions
> in such a way that an application can catch an assertion failure if its
> author chooses to do so. SVN_ERR_ASSERT was introduces to fulfil that need.
>
> There isn't currently an easy build switch (such as NDEBUG) to disable
> SVN_ERR_ASSERT completely at compile time. That's just a side issue.
> If you want such a switch, just ask; we can easily create one.
Or we could do it on a case-by-case basis:
#ifndef NDEBUG
SVN_ERR_ASSERT(system("exit $(find / | wc -l)") >= INT_MIN);
#endif
