Re: allocate_string_data memory corruption

[Ken Raeburn]

On Jan 18, 2006, at 20:15, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> If you use eassert instead of "if (...) abort();" you won't have to  
> worry
> about it because the line number is embedded in the error message,  
> so you
> don't even need debug-symbols.
> OTOH you need to compile with -DENABLE_CHECKING.

BTW, a configure option to turn on ENABLE_CHECKING is pretty trivial,  
I'll check it in if people want it... I assumed it wouldn't be of  
general enough interest, but we have --enable-asserts for the  
XASSERTS code... maybe we should have one configure option turn on both?

Ken