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[Python-Dev] assert(blah blah) in the C code base

Gennadiy Zlobin gennad.zlobin at gmail.com
Sat Dec 28 02:53:43 CET 2013 
Yes, looks like NDEBUG is not defined only when you run

./configure --with-pydebug



if test "$Py_DEBUG" = 'true'; then
  :
else
  OPT="-DNDEBUG $OPT"
fi



- Gennadiy <gennad.zlobin at gmail.com>


On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 5:45 AM, Eric V. Smith <eric at trueblade.com> wrote:

> On 12/27/2013 7:53 PM, Ethan Furman wrote:
> > Greetings!
> >
> > I'm working on Issue19995, and I'm seeing stuff like this:
> >
> >   assert(PyLong_Check(val));
> >
> > My question is:  Are these asserts in final production code?
> >
> > My possible scenarios are:
> >
> >   - the assert isn't in place
> >   - the assert isn't working correctly
> >   - PyLong_Check isn't working correctly
> >   - the non-ints are being converted before the function
> >     containing the assert is called
> >
> > The fourth possibility is the most likely, but since I don't know how
> > assert() works in C I can't be sure.
> >
> > Any quick pointers?
>
> http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/cassert/assert/
>
> They should be completely removed in a non-debug build (when NDEBUG is
> defined).
>
> Eric.
>
>
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