Subject: Re: AbiWord on Linux/Alpha
From: Thomas Briggs (tom@sane.com)
Date: Wed Feb 09 2000 - 10:46:21 CST
FWIW, I'm have to disagree. Why is the code checking data in asserts
that isn't used during the normal execution of the program? Debug-only code
should help detect potential problems in the release version; having debug
code which doesn't at all apply to the release version is wasted effort.
-Tom
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From: sam th <sam@bur-jud-118-039.rh.uchicago.edu>
To: abnay@altavista.net <abnay@altavista.net>
Cc: Kevin Vajk <kvajk@ricochet.net>; abiword-dev@abisource.com
<abiword-dev@abisource.com>
Date: Wednesday, February 09, 2000 11:35 AM
Subject: Re: AbiWord on Linux/Alpha
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>The unused function parameter and variable warnings are NOT coming from
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>UT_ASSERT for the most part. However, the compiler is not detecting this,
>and thinks that they are unused. This is not a problem with our code.
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> sam th
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