[libvirt] [PATCH 1/7] sa_assert: new assert-like macro, enabled only for use with static analyzers

[Daniel Veillard]

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 06:02:30PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> From: Jim Meyering <meyering at redhat.com>
> 
> Among some here, there is a strong aversion to use of "assert", yet
> some others think it is essential (when applied judiciously) even --
> perhaps "especially" -- at the heart of libraries and core hypervisor-
> related code.
> Here is a compromise that lets us make assertions about the code (e.g.,
> to tell static analyzers about invariants) without even a hint of risk
> of an abort.
> * src/internal.h [STATIC_ANALYSIS]: Include <assert.h>.
> (sa_assert): Define.  A no-op most of the time, but equivalent
> to classical assert when STATIC_ANALYSIS is nonzero.
> ---
>  src/internal.h |    7 +++++++
>  1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/src/internal.h b/src/internal.h
> index 2e73210..4be17d8 100644
> --- a/src/internal.h
> +++ b/src/internal.h
> @@ -9,6 +9,13 @@
>  # include <limits.h>
>  # include <verify.h>
> 
> +# if STATIC_ANALYSIS
> +#  include <assert.h>
> +#  define sa_assert(expr) assert (expr)
> +# else
> +#  define sa_assert(expr) /* empty */
> +# endif
> +
>  # ifdef HAVE_SYS_SYSLIMITS_H
>  #  include <sys/syslimits.h>
>  # endif

  So Clang defines STATIC_ANALYSIS ?

IMHO that's just fine, ACK !

Daniel

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