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Re: Merging calls to `abort'
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> Steven Bosscher <stevenb@suse.de> wrote:
>
> system.h:#define abort() fancy_abort (__FILE__, __LINE__, __FUNCTION__)
>
> where fancy_abort is a, well, fancy abort that prints some more
> information about what happened, and where. IMVHO any moderately
> large piece of software that uses abort should consider using this
> kind of construct, or use assert.
>
> Look at the irony of this recommendation.
>
> This technique will work, but it is rather wasteful. Each abort call,
> if handled this way, requires two string constants that are redundant
The __FILE__ strings will be combined, so you get a most one of it for
each object file.
Andreas.
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