[LLVMdev] LLVM asserts

[Erick Tryzelaar]

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Chris Lattner<clattner at apple.com> wrote:
>
> assert and abort should never happen, just like a null pointer or
> garbage pointer dereference should never happen.  How are garbage
> pointer and asserts different?

So what should we use to validate input, such as constructing an
APFloat from a string? llvm_report_error? Or should I change my string
parsing function into a classmethod that returns pointer to an APFloat
or null on failure?