svn commit: r334199 - head/usr.sbin/bhyve

[Warner Losh]

On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 2:02 PM, Ed Maste <emaste at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 25 May 2018 at 14:26, Marcelo Araujo <araujobsdport at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> The fact that we don't do NDEBUG builds normally does not allow us to
> >> ignore that it exists.  It's perfectly reasonable for a user to build
> >> with CFLAGS+=NDEBUG.  That need to work.  If code is going to fail to
> >> handle resource errors with NDEBUG set then it needs something like this
> >> at the top of the file:
> >
> > Please document it in some place!
>
> NDEBUG is documented in assert(3). The man page should have more of an
> explanation (and examples) of the possible pitfalls of assert()
> though
>

NDEBUG has been documented in the assert man page since it entered Unix via
PBW in the 7th Edition Unix from Bell Labs. It's part of the C standard, as
well as many POSIX and SVID docs.

Warner