Boost C++ Libraries: Ticket #6609: Inconsistent BOOST_ASSERT and BOOST_ASSERT_MSG behavior

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genygetm@… — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:01:24 GMT

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viboes — Mon, 28 May 2012 17:31:50 GMT

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Please set the component in the future if you want it to be analyzed.

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viboes — Sun, 03 Jun 2012 20:00:29 GMT

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Sun, 02 Dec 2012 11:53:19 GMT

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-1 for the patch. The opposite seems more practical for me. Please see #7028.

The patch also looks incomplete. The related documentation should be updated, too.

genygetm@… — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 09:54:09 GMT

The fact is that the current behavior (i.e. BOOST_ASSERT ignoring NDEBUG when BOOST_ENABLE_ASSERT_HANDLER is set) is something that has been existing since the introduction of boost/assert.hpp in boost 1.27.

BOOST_ASSERT_MSG is a new extension added in boost 1.46 and it does not to behave like BOOST_ASSERT. Nothing in the documentation on BOOST_ASSERT_MSG says it is by desing, so it is a bug.

Ticket #7028 (whenever the current BOOST_ASSERT behavior is practical) is not a bug, but a question open for debate.

For the current version of boots this bugfix is appropriate and should be applied. The documented behavior as well as the behavior of the long existed BOOST_ASSERT is not to be changed, so I see no need update the documentation.

Anyway, my bug report is 10 months old, several boost releases got out since then, still with the bug, and nobody seems to care. So I guess it is Ok to close this ticket and do something once the decision on #7028 is made.

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viboes — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 17:59:40 GMT

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Duplicated #7028.