Re: problem with -Wunreachable-code

• Subject: Re: problem with -Wunreachable-code
• From: Gwynne <email@hidden>
• Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 18:56:13 -0400
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Change this line:
#define __assert(e, file, line) \
((void)printf ("%s:%u: failed assertion `%s'\n", file, line, e), abort(), 0)
to
#define __assert(e, file, line) \
((void)printf ("%s:%u: failed assertion `%s'\n", file, line, e), abort())

Does anyone at Apple care about the laughable typography in that line? The back-quote character is not a left apostrophe, nor is the apostrophe a right apostrophe. Nor in most fonts do they resemble each other. (I know this is probably an ancient Unixism, but hopefully we're more aesthetic now.)

I'm not sure it matters too much -- this isn't exactly a string any normal user should ever see -- but you can certainly file a bug on it and see what happens. I don't know where the backtick thing comes from in Unix's history, but I've always wondered about it. It seems strange to me too.

-- Gwynne, daughter of the Code
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