Ticket #105 (NULL checks)

[Andy Dougherty]

On Wed, 31 Dec 2008, chromatic wrote:

> On Wednesday 31 December 2008 12:26:07 Andy Dougherty wrote:
> 
> > This is not a hypothetical what-if situation.  I have lost many hours to
> > just this situation.  See my long example in ticket RT #50684.  To save
> > everyone from looking it up, I will extract the relevant example here:
> 
> Your copy and paste accidentally omitted the part where you enabled 
> optimizations and disabled debugging assistance, which, as you might expect, 
> made debugging more difficult.  I've had similar problems when I added asserts 
> and wondered why they weren't working.  I'm not sure that's a problem we can 
> solve.

The issue I was chasing only showed up under optimization.  That's why I 
was enabling optimization.

And yes, it is a problem we can easily solve.  We can solve it by getting 
rid of the attribute_nonnull decorations and replacing them with 
assert()s.

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    Andy Dougherty		doughera at lafayette.edu