# error "Bitcoin cannot be compiled without assertions." <<<<NOT



Summary:

The email mentions that the recipient's mail is being spamfoldered due to Yahoo's DMARC policy and a broken SF.net mailing list software. The sender suggests moving away from SF.net for hosting mailing lists. The email also discusses the use of assert() in code, mentioning that it should have no side effects and providing a resource on the topic. The sender questions why sub-standard coding practices were not fixed earlier and mentions that some professional codebases require assertions to be enabled with side effects. The email concludes by stating that Bitcoin Core currently requires assertions to be enabled in order to build.


Updated on: 2023-06-08T23:36:04.389109+00:00