Re: Assertions and Such

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Sean Middleditch <sean.middleditch@iname.com> writes: 
> What would be the performance gain if distributed binaries had these
> disabled?  Would it make much of a difference?
>

No, the performance difference isn't noticeable.
 
> And, if these were disabled by default, then any distributed application
> would have to be guaranteed to not fail such assertions, since the app
> would crash a lot.  Would developers then make more effort to ensure
> their apps are error-free?

Don't know. People are supposed to consider the warnings bugs. Some
people apparently do not. ;-)

Havoc