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On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 12:35:36AM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: > I'm not sure if this patch is a good idea. It adds 2 new debug flags > -DA calls sanity checking assert routines > -Dq suppresses the "EXECUTING..." line, without which regression tests fail. > and a new routine > Perl_hv_assert, which checks the consistency of hashes > > I didn't make the compilation of Perl_hv_assert conditional on -DDEBUGGING > because it may be useful to call it from a debugger session, in a similar > fashion to Perl_sv_dump. Thanks applied. (to blead) because I feel that being able to assert the integrity of internal data structures could be very interesting for tracking down bugs. Nicholas ClarkThread Previous | Thread Next