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From: ONM64%DMSWWU1A.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Kai Henningsen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Future of Minix
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Date: 19 Jul 89 16:57:59 GMT
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>From:         Andy Tanenbaum <ast@CS.VU.NL>

>In article <19654@louie.udel.EDU> V61%DHDURZ1.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Ronald
> Lamprecht) writes:
>>The additional code should
>>be included in #ifdef DEBUG -- #endif so that it is possible to generate
>>a fast run-time library and a debugging library version.
>
>Argh!  I think #ifdefs make code very hard to read and ugly.  I am not all
>that wild about the idea.
>
>Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)

How about assert() or some low-level variant thereof (that doesn't use
fprintf)? That would still use #ifdef DEBUG, but make the code more
readable. I think that wouldn't be too hard to do.

Kai
onm64 @ dmswwu1a . bitnet