Re: [boost] BOOST_ASSERT_IF(IF,THEN)

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-06-12 08:54:15

Thorsten Ottosen:
> Dear all,
> 
> I often find myself in the need of the above assertion mechanism where 
> the actual assertion should only checked if the first condition is true.
> 
> Of course, we could write this as
> 
> if( IF )
>   BOOST_ASSERT( THEN );
> 
> but this has the potential downside that the compiler cannot completely 
> optimize away the function calls inside the if-statement.

BOOST_ASSERT( !IF || THEN );

or

BOOST_ASSERT( IF? THEN: true );

?