[PATCH 6/6] Provide assert_perror when it's not defined

Mark Wielaard mjw at redhat.com
Mon May 4 14:22:25 UTC 2015


On Mon, May 04, 2015 at 07:53:27AM +0200, Petr Machata wrote:
> Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > assert_perror is a GNU extension and is not provided by uClibc. Provide
> > definition when that macro is not available.
> 
> It looks like it would pay off to have a dedicated header file for this
> macro.

Yes, but it is only needed in the backtrace tests. So please make it a
tests only header. But since this is in the tests a simple assert (errno)
would IMHO also be fine. It is just there to make sure the tests fail on
something unexpected. For real code we should do proper error checking.

Cheers,

Mark


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