Yo Hal! On Wed, 15 Mar 2017 23:21:59 -0700 Hal Murray <hmur...@megapathdsl.net> wrote:
> g...@rellim.com said:
> > I like checks for things that can never happen. Somehow many of
> > them eventually do get tripped, then the error is more obvious,
> > assuming a good error message.
>
> I do too, but there can be too much of a good thing. There is a real
> talent for putting in the right checks without adding too much
> clutter.
It is always a judgement call.
> That particular trap is very unlikely to go off. I'd be happy if the
> calls to that routine were changed to use the new code and a similar
> trap were installed over there.
I'm all for calling the functions in timespecops.h. Way too many places
where handling timespec's are one-off, each done slightly wrong.
But not this cycle, quiete period before release. We need to keep
changes to the very simple and the very critical.
RGDS
GARY
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