[llvm] r185227 - Fix broken asserts that never fire.

Richard Trieu rtrieu at google.com
Fri Jun 28 15:43:04 PDT 2013


On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 3:04 PM, Hal Finkel <hfinkel at anl.gov> wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> > Author: rtrieu
> > Date: Fri Jun 28 16:54:25 2013
> > New Revision: 185227
> >
> > URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=185227&view=rev
> > Log:
> > Fix broken asserts that never fire.
> >
> > Change assert("text") to assert(0 && "text").  The first case is a
> > const char *
> > to bool conversion, which always evaluates to true, never triggering
> > the
> > assert.  The second case will always trigger the assert.
>
> Please use llvm_unreachable for all of these.
>
>  -Hal
>

Is that the preferred method now?  The codebase has many examples of
assert(0 && "text");

>
> >
> > Modified:
> >     llvm/trunk/include/llvm/TableGen/Record.h
> >     llvm/trunk/lib/Target/Hexagon/InstPrinter/HexagonInstPrinter.cpp
> >
> > Modified: llvm/trunk/include/llvm/TableGen/Record.h
> > URL:
> >
> http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/llvm/trunk/include/llvm/TableGen/Record.h?rev=185227&r1=185226&r2=185227&view=diff
> >
> ==============================================================================
> > --- llvm/trunk/include/llvm/TableGen/Record.h (original)
> > +++ llvm/trunk/include/llvm/TableGen/Record.h Fri Jun 28 16:54:25
> > 2013
> > @@ -1799,9 +1799,9 @@ struct LessRecordRegister {
> >
> >        unsigned LHSVal, RHSVal;
> >        if (LHSPart.second.getAsInteger(10, LHSVal))
> > -        assert("Unable to convert LHS to integer.");
> > +        assert(0 && "Unable to convert LHS to integer.");
> >        if (RHSPart.second.getAsInteger(10, RHSVal))
> > -        assert("Unable to convert RHS to integer.");
> > +        assert(0 && "Unable to convert RHS to integer.");
> >        if (LHSVal != RHSVal)
> >          return LHSVal < RHSVal;
> >      }
> >
> > Modified:
> > llvm/trunk/lib/Target/Hexagon/InstPrinter/HexagonInstPrinter.cpp
> > URL:
> >
> http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/llvm/trunk/lib/Target/Hexagon/InstPrinter/HexagonInstPrinter.cpp?rev=185227&r1=185226&r2=185227&view=diff
> >
> ==============================================================================
> > --- llvm/trunk/lib/Target/Hexagon/InstPrinter/HexagonInstPrinter.cpp
> > (original)
> > +++ llvm/trunk/lib/Target/Hexagon/InstPrinter/HexagonInstPrinter.cpp
> > Fri Jun 28 16:54:25 2013
> > @@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ void HexagonInstPrinter::printBranchOper
> >                                              raw_ostream &O) const {
> >    // Branches can take an immediate operand.  This is used by the
> >    branch
> >    // selection pass to print $+8, an eight byte displacement from
> >    the PC.
> > -  assert("Unknown branch operand.");
> > +  assert(0 && "Unknown branch operand.");
> >  }
> >
> >  void HexagonInstPrinter::printCallOperand(const MCInst *MI, unsigned
> >  OpNo,
> > @@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ void HexagonInstPrinter::printSymbol(con
> >      O << '#';
> >      printOperand(MI, OpNo, O);
> >    } else {
> > -    assert("Unknown symbol operand");
> > +    assert(0 && "Unknown symbol operand");
> >      printOperand(MI, OpNo, O);
> >    }
> >    O << ')';
> >
> >
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>
> --
> Hal Finkel
> Assistant Computational Scientist
> Leadership Computing Facility
> Argonne National Laboratory
>
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