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From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Recent enabling of xassert
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 17:17:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <01c5104c$Blat.v2.4$e6859440@zahav.net.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m31xbowtr3.fsf@kfs-l.imdomain.dk> (storm@cua.dk)

> From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm)
> Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 12:15:44 +0100
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> > I disagree. xassert should only be disabled for releases. We want to
> > find the bugs now, even if it takes time to fix them. CVS should not
> > be considered a stable release.
> 
> I agree, but...
> 
> Proving the presense of bugs is no aim in itself (I'm sure there are
> many bugs, but if they are "mostly harmless" it is not critical to
> find them).

If some places where xassert is used are revealing harmless
situations, let's remove those xassert's.

      reply	other threads:[~2005-02-11 15:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-02-10  9:28 Recent enabling of xassert Kim F. Storm
2005-02-10 10:18 ` Jason Rumney
2005-02-10 11:15   ` Kim F. Storm
2005-02-11 15:17     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]

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