[PATCH 1/3] Documentation/CodingGuidelines: explain why assert is bad
From: Stefan Beller <hidden>
Date: 2017-11-22 22:38:47
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <redacted> --- Documentation/CodingGuidelines | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
index c4cb5ff0d4..4f8791895b 100644
--- a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
+++ b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines@@ -386,6 +386,9 @@ For C programs: - Use Git's gettext wrappers to make the user interface translatable. See "Marking strings for translation" in po/README. + - Prefer the BUG() macro over asserts, as asserts requires that the + NDEBUG flag is unset on compilation to work. + For Perl programs: - Most of the C guidelines above apply.
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