fix build errors with -DNDEBUG
Paul Eggert
eggert@cs.ucla.edu
Mon Jul 27 06:25:00 GMT 2015
Martin Sebor wrote:
> When glibc is compiled with -NDEBUG the
> macros expand to nothing and, without the attribute or some
> similar annotation, GCC complains about the variables being
> unused.
That's a common problem with assert and NDEBUG. We solve this problem in a
different way in the Emacs source code, with something like this:
#ifdef ENABLE_CHECKING
# define eassert(cond) ((cond) ? (void) 0 : die (#cond, __FILE__, __LINE__))
#else
# define eassert(cond) ((void) (0 && (cond)))
#endif
That way, GCC doesn't complain when assertions are disabled, because the
variables are "used" even when !ENABLE_CHECKING. Perhaps glibc could use a
similar idea in a private macro after 2.22 is released. (Obviously standard
'assert' can't work this way.)
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