Segfault & patch for libxfcegui4
Brian J. Tarricone
bjt23 at cornell.edu
Wed Aug 22 17:42:37 CEST 2007
Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> If you want an explicit check, I don't think you can rely on g_return_if_fail.
>
> I'm not sure if this is correct, but I thought g_return_* macros
> should only really be used for debugging purposes, because they may be
> defined as no-ops in certain configurations.
Oof, I didn't know that. Do people really build apps with
G_DISABLE_CHECKS? If so, a lot of code could break. I guess the
g_return_* stuff is really meant to catch programmer error? I like to
use it for sanity checks so it'll print out a useful warning.
Lame.
-brian
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