[boost] Re: assert() replacement?

From: Valentin Bonnard (Bonnard.V_at_[hidden])
Date: 1999-08-31 12:19:31

Valentin Bonnard wrote:
> 
> Beman Dawes wrote:
> 
> > The real question is whether to stick with assert() or try to develop
> > something along the lines of assertion<>().  It seems to me that
> > assertion<>() meets identified needs:
> >
> >    * Code usually optimized away if not active.
> 
> Need a compile time constant to do that.
> 
> >    * Avoids ODR violations.
> 
> Need an external variable initialised only once.
> 
> These tend to conflict.
> 
> I can see a solution, but it depends on the way #include
> works:
> 
> /users/bonnard/test.cc:
> > #include <boost/assert.hpp>
> 
> /usr/include/boost/assert.hpp:
> > #include "debug_mode.hpp"
> 
> /users/bonnard/debug_mode.hpp:
> > extern const bool debug_mode;
> > const bool debug_mode = true;

Should be 

/users/bonnard/debug_mode.hpp:
> extern const bool debug_mode = true

/users/bonnard/debug_mode.cpp:
> #include "debug_mode.hpp"
> const bool debug_mode;

sorry

-- 
Valentin Bonnard