| ▲ | stefan_ 3 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||
You are saying this would not have happened in a C release build where asserts define to nothing? Wonder why these old grey beards chose to go with that. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | tptacek 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
I am one of those old grey beards (or at least, I got started shipping C code in the 1990s), and I'd leave asserts in prod serverside code given the choice; better that than a totally unpredictable error path. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | ashishb 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||
> You are saying this would not have happened in a C release build where asserts define to nothing? Afaik, Go and Java are the only languages that make you pause and explicitly deal with these exceptions. | |||||||||||||||||
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