[cairo] [PATCH 15/72] image: typecasting helpers

[Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult]

On 29.12.2015 15:52, Chris Wilson wrote:
>> +static cairo_always_inline cairo_image_surface_t *
>> +_cairo_surface_cast_image ( cairo_surface_t *surface )
>> +{
>> +    assert (surface != NULL);
> 
> The assert here is pretty pointless. *NULL are easy enough to spot, all
> incoming surfaces are defined (either real or error surfaces, and we
> have said that anything else is undefined), so that leaves the internal
> surface passing for which we sometimes use a temporary NULL for
> unsupported.

Okay, at that specific point, the assert can be dropped.

I only added it, because quite recently we talked about adding more
asserts whereever some assumptions are made.

> I would rather see an attribute((nonnull)) annotations rather than
> assert (the attribute would need to be propagated back through the
> function pointers etc).

Yes, of course, but that probably would be a bigger changeset.

OTOH, I already planned a similar big change, replace void* by
cairo_surface_t ... should we do it that way (and also add nunnull
attribute ?

--mtx

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Enrico Weigelt,
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