Re: [boost] Boost.Assertion

From: Jens Maurer (Jens.Maurer_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-04-15 03:26:58

Rainer Deyke wrote:
> It might be possible to provide a default handler and allow the user to
> override it.  Something like this:
> 
> // In boost header:
> template<class T> void assertion_handler(T) {}
> void f(int *p)
> {
>   if (!p) assertion_handler(1);
> }
> 
> // In user code:
> void assertion_handler(int)
> {
>   std::cerr << "Assertion failed." << std::endl;
> }

I believe that this does not work, because the function f() always calls
the template function assertion_handler, because a declaration for the
non-template overload is not visible at f().

Jens Maurer