Re: type of used includes

[Ingo Ruhnke]

David Philippi <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thursday 20 June 2002 13:23, address@hidden wrote:
>> Index: counter.cxx
>> ===================================================================
>> RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/Games/Pingus/src/counter.cxx,v
>> +#include <assert.h>
> 
> We should either use <cassert> or <assert.h> in all cases. If
> there's no pressing need to support very old / buggy compiler we
> should use cassert, cstdio since this is recommended in quite every
> book about C++.

<assert.h> is guaranteed to work on any C++ compile around, while
<cassert> might also work, but you can never be 100% sure, since some
Compilers just have:

-- File: cassert ---
namespace std {
        #include <assert.h>
}

Which causes all kinds of throuble if something within assert.h is
defined as a Macro, so you can never be sure if adding a std:: is good
or bad. So I would suggest we stick with the old C headers, since they
are guaranteed to work best at the moment.

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