Re: [boost] BOOST_ASSUME_review_needed?

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-09-21 18:52:47

Felipe Magno de Almeida wrote:
> On 9/21/05, Peter Dimov <pdimov_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>
>> Excuse me for my jumping late into the thread, but what are the
>> situations where one would want to use a BOOST_ASSERT with __assume
>> instead of assert?
>>
>
> __assume on MSVC passes hints to the compiler for optimization, it
> assumes the expression is always true.

Yes, I actually knew that, but thought that assert on MSVC already does 
__assume. But it doesn't. Maybe it did once and they switched it back when 
developers complained, :-) or maybe I was just misremembering things.