Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Dirk Zimoch <[email protected]> · Thu, 19 May 2011 13:34:35 +0200

Andrew Johnson wrote:

[...], but assert() calls may legally appear

in places where the assertion can only fire if there is a real bug in the

code.

I agree. That's exactly my point. Assertions should fire on programming

errors, but not on run-time problems like unavailable memory.

So calling assert() on the result of epicsEventWait() is OK because that

only fails if the event id is invalid which is a programming error.

Calling assert on the result of epicsEventCreate() is not OK.

Dirk