Re: Recent enabling of xassert

[Jason Rumney]

Kim F. Storm wrote:

> Miles recently enabled xassert unconditionally to catch undiscovered
> bugs in redisplay and other places...
>
> We have now seen several crashes caused by this change -- but none of
> them has been fully diagnosed yet, as this is very hard without having
> easy ways to reproduce the crashes.
>
> Debugging those crashes requires time which I don't have -- so unless
> someone else steps in to help, I suggest we disable xassert again.
>  
I disagree. xassert should only be disabled for releases. We want to 
find the bugs now, even if it takes time to fix them. CVS should not be 
considered a stable release.