assert(false)

[Ali Çehreli]

On 06/20/2013 12:48 PM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:

 > Is it considered good/recommended practice to insert an assert(false) 
statement
 > in parts of the code that should be unreachable?  Or simply an 
optional choice
 > that may be useful for debugging?

And a reminder that assert(false) (and assert(0)) is never removed from 
code (even when other asserts are). So, they are always there to prevent 
the program from producing unexpected results.

Ali