From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: xassert in dispextern.h Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 18:08:33 +0100 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1109698638 3869 80.91.229.2 (1 Mar 2005 17:37:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 17:37:18 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 01 18:37:18 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D6BIA-0004YK-5N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 18:36:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D6Bal-0002Zh-7w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 12:55:31 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D6Ba8-0002Qi-QT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 12:54:52 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D6Ba7-0002Q9-Ma for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 12:54:51 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D6BY2-0001Wr-Ge for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 12:52:42 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D6ArN-0000TL-Qk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 12:08:37 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D6ArK-0006Zq-KT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 12:08:37 -0500 Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (David Kastrup's message of "Tue, 01 Mar 2005 17:47:15 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-MailScanner-To: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:33994 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:33994 David Kastrup writes: > Would it be possible to change the default of xassert to a noop in > dispextern.h again? I am asking this because of the following > reasons: I forgot reason e): I hear from developers that they actually turn this off in order to have a working Emacs with tolerable performance. So it would seem that the newbies get an assertion-enabled crashing Emacs, while more knowledgeable developers turn it off until the time the might need it. That's completely backwards. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum