Re: I assert that word lenth IS equal to word size!
Jon Ericson <[email protected]>
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Kevin Atkinson <[email protected]> writes: > On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Gary Setter wrote: > >> In version 0.60.3 module suggest.cpp function >> Working::try_scan(), the following line was removed: >> assert(strlen(sw->word) == sw->word_size); >> >> I'm sure it is a good change, but would anyone care to mention >> why the change? > > Performance. The condition still must always be true. Why not define NDEBUG at compile time instead? The whole point of assert is to have no performance impact when making tests that must be true. Jon