203615 - NS_PRECONDITION: Truth in advertising (1)

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core :: XPCOM, defect)

Description

[Ben Fowler]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030418 Chimera/0.7+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030418 Chimera/0.7+

NS_PRECONDITION resolves to call of Assertion( ) (see line 430 of nsDebug.cpp).
This seems curious. 

I would have thought that a separate function was needed.
to indicate that it was a precondition that was not met. 



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Mess up a function call so that its preconditions are not met
2. Watch the log
3.

Actual Results:  
Missing pre-condtions are logged as assertion failures

Expected Results:  
The two types of inconsistency are different and should be logged separately

Comment 1

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

nothing to do with camino

Comment 2

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

nothing to do with camino

Comment 3

[Ben Fowler]

You can close  the bug as INVALID if you wish.

What it has to  do with Camino is that it is a DOGFOOD issue, that is, it
is  an incongruity in the code which intereferes  with debugging.

If you don't think that it is invalid, then it should go to Mozilla, but
as I only work on Camino, I am  not going to do that.

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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