On 29.11.19 11:29, Matthias St. Pierre wrote:


On 29.11.19 10:22, Matt Caswell wrote:

     if (!ossl_assert(ptr != NULL)) {
         ERR_raise(ERR_LIB_WHATEVER, ERR_R_PASSED_NULL_PARAMETER);
         return 0;
     }


I still dislike the odd way in which the assertion needs to be formulated,
with the double negation. With the `ossl_is_null()` macro, which I proposed
in #7218, the same condition would read

    if (ossl_is_null(ptr)) {
        ERR_raise(ERR_LIB_WHATEVER, ERR_R_PASSED_NULL_PARAMETER);
        return 0;
    }


Isn't that much better readable and easier to understand?


For more examples like that, see the change set

https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/7218/files


Matthias




Moreover, in the debug build you get the error message  "Invalid NULL pointer:" instead 
of a generic "Assertion Failed:"

https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/7218/files#diff-6e9d962dc8c30948fdf827ad471ec11dR41-R44



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