Is this a kind of assert ?

[mingodad]

Looking through the code of void gotHttpReply2 on Msg13.cpp I found this and it seems like a kind of poor man assert:

if ( replySize > replyAllocSize ) { char *xx=NULL;*xx=0; } //!!! here it'll segfault on purpose ?

Is this intentional ?

[tcreek]

Good luck on getting a response

[mingodad]

Do you mean this is a dead project ?

[tcreek]

No, it is not dead and gets updates often, it's just the owner(s)/contributors do not bother reading the issues section.

[mingodad]

Thank you for reply and advise about it !

[SaptakBhoumik]

I believe it is some exception handling method using signals. Note:-Just my assumption.

[mingodad]

But that's a segfault I'm not sure any exception handler catch it, that's why I said maybe poor man assertion.

[SaptakBhoumik]

But that's a segfault I'm not sure any exception handler catch it, that's why I said maybe poor man assertion.

You can use signals to catch it but this is just my assumption because there's better way of handling exception. I may be wrong as well

[tcreek]

It does seem to segfault as I cannot even get it to run on Debian 10/11. I have tried in 4/8/16GB systems and it segfaults out of memory every time.

[davidebaldini]

The expression { char *xx=NULL;*xx=0; } is copy-pasted everywhere in the sources, it is indeed a surrogate for assert.