Re: [Boost-users] Re: Re: boost::thread::join causes assertion(pthreads)

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-03-22 11:45:57

Vladimir Prus wrote:
>> Yes. assert is not equivalent to perror/abort. The two have different
>> meanings and are not interchangeable.
>
> Care to elaborate why the change cannot be made in this specific case?

assert(expr) means a precondition failure or an internal error, depending on 
expr.

perror/abort means... perror/abort.

If the problem you are trying to fix is that assert() does not give enough 
information about the bug - and I haven't seen this particular problem 
reported as a defect - the proper way to fix it is to define an 
user-overrideable callback.