Re: [boost] assert

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-02-18 16:30:04

At 02:57 PM 2/14/2005, Ulrich Eckhardt wrote:
 >On Monday 14 February 2005 15:03, Peter Dimov wrote:
 >> Sérgio Vale e Pace wrote:
 >> > it should work indenticaly either way, but IMO <cassert> should be
 >> > used for C++ code.
 >>
 >> It's a leftover from the days of compilers that don't have <cxx> 
versions
 >> of <xx.h>. Since <assert.h> is identical to <cassert>, there was no 
point
 >> in breaking those just for the style points.
 >
 >I'd say that one can get the style points for documenting this decision.
 >
 >/* we use <assert.h> instead of the more proper <cassert> because support 

 >for
 >the old header is far more widespread among compilers and because it 
makes
 >absolutely no difference since it only contains macros. */
 >#include <assert.h>

Unless someone objects (Peter?) I'll commit a slightly shorter version of 
the above:

#include <assert.h> // .h to support old libs w/o <cassert> - effect is the 
same

--Beman