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Re: [PATCH 1/2] Fix some minor issues.
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olafBuddenhagen |
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Re: [PATCH 1/2] Fix some minor issues. |
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Sat, 26 Dec 2009 18:03:46 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) |
Hi,
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 10:25:47PM +0200, Sergiu Ivanov wrote:
> Still, I somehow feel bad about copying from a pointer without doing
> an extra check. Would it be an acceptable idea to assert (name) ?
Sure: if you think that something *should* be a certain way (non-NULL in
this case), but want to protect against the possibility that the
assumption was wrong after all, because of something that was overlooked
-- that's precisely what assert() is for :-)
-antrik-