[boost] Re: assert() replacement?

From: Greg Colvin (gcolvin_at_[hidden])
Date: 1999-08-31 10:48:09

From: Valentin Bonnard <Bonnard.V_at_[hidden]>
> ...
> I propose the following:
> 
> // precondition: that debug_mode is defined
> #define BOOST_ASSERT_THROW(condition) \
>   (debug_mode ? boost::Utils::assert_throw(condition, __LINE__,
> __FILE__) : 0)
> 
> namespace boost {
> namespace Utils {
>   struct AssertFailure : std::logic_error { 
>      AssertFailure (long line, const char* file);
>   ...
>   };
> 
>   inline void assert_throw (bool c, long line, const char* file)
>   { if (c) throw AssertFailure (line, file); }
> }
> using namespace Utils;
> }

So any user of Boost must define exactly one extern debug_mode in
order to link?

And being a link-time constant, the code for the condition cannot
be compiled away?