[Boost-users] <cassert> in the boost libraries

From: Joerg Ruedenauer (nospam_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-02-03 13:50:00

Hello,

we use our own assertion handler and assert macro in our code, defined 
in a header which gets included at the end of our precompiled header 
file. Unfortunately, many boost libraries undermine this because they 
include the cassert header, which redefines the assert macro. Currently 
we work around this by putting some boost libraries in the precompiled 
header and including our own assert header again in each source file 
which includes boost headers, but this is a clumsy and error-prone 
solution. Boost already nominately provides a solution through 
BOOST_ENABLE_ASSERT_HANDLER, but it's just not used consequently 
throughout the libraries.

Could the authors of the libraries (or the reviewers) please grep 
through the code and change the cassert (or assert.h) includes to 
boost/assert.hpp, and consequently, change assert(...) to 
BOOST_ASSERT(...)? I've found the inclusion particularly often in the 
serialization, graph, iostream and random libraries, but also in regex, 
signals, ptr_container and many other headers.

Regards,

Joerg Ruedenauer