[PATCH 0/4] BUG_RETURN_VAL macros

[Peter Hutterer]

On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 08:06:48PM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> > From: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net>
> > Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 20:26:37 +1000
> > 
> > I got annoyed having to write constructs like
> > 
> > BUG_WARN(foo);
> > if (foo)
> >     return FALSE;
> > 
> > and similar. glib has useful macros like g_return_if_fail and similar, these
> > are macros that essentially do the same job. They shout into the log, but
> > otherwise continue as normal.
> > 
> > http://developer.gnome.org/glib/2.29/glib-Warnings-and-Assertions.html#g-return-if-fail
> > 
> > These are not macros that should be used for handling normal out-of-scope
> > values, they're there to shout that there is a real bug that needs fixing.
> 
> Still I think I agree with whoever said that hiding control flow
> instructions behind a macro isn't a good idea.

any good alternatives then? I've played around a bit trying to find
something that doesn't hide the return statement but it'd require more macro
trickery and generally worse code.

Cheers,
  Peter