Re: assert.h replacement

[Simon Josefsson]

Eric Blake <address@hidden> writes:

> Simon Josefsson <simon <at> josefsson.org> writes:
>
>> Ah, ok, I thought you talked about the existing 'assert' module in
>> gnulib, which looks unrelated to what you are proposing.
>
> I'm actually thinking that that it would be better to make the
> existing assert module serve the two orthogonal purposes (provide
> ./configure --disable-assert, and make assert() guarantee that
> __func__ is included in the output), rather than creating a new
> module.  And note that while it is easy to test for __func__ support,
> there are platforms with __func__ support but a broken assert (such as
> cygwin 1.5.x), so you would need an AC_RUN_IFELSE test to detect it.

Ah, testing whether a platform's assert uses __func__ seems like a
useful feature.  I don't have time to implement it myself, but would
review it if you submitted a patch.

/Simon