Re: [glob2-devel] A note about assert(false) and abort

[Kyle Lutze]

� wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In glob2, we've used a lot of assert, which is good. Asserts can be disabled 
> by compiling with NDEBUG defined. But sometimes we want to abort, even in 
> release, for instance when some critical file is missing. In this case, one 
> should not use assert(false), but abort(), just after some error message. I 
> will do this from now on critical situations in glob2.
>
> Steph

better idea, throw up error messages inside of the game!

if they don't have the file, throw up an error box at the beginning 
saying "sorry, but file blah.txt is missing, please correct and try 
again" with a quit button

Kyle