[Libreoffice] OSL_ASSERT - remove backtrace or make abort

[Thorsten Behrens]

Lubos Lunak wrote:
>  I'd like to remove the backtrace printing from OSL_ASSERT and friends, or, 
> even better and if possible, make these functions work properly, i.e. abort 
> on failure (I'm not really holding my breath on the second one, but refusing 
> that one will at least support the first one).
> 
> [...]
> 
>  Opinions?
> 
Yes - first of all, there's SAL_DIAGNOSE_ABORT, to optionally enable
your desired behaviour. Then, there's sal-disable-backtrace.diff,
which I can happily merge - just set DISABLE_SAL_BACKTRACE then.

Regarding the problem itself, it's festering since many years, and 
not easily reconcilable - in the sal/uno area, assertions *are*
serious, and should lead to aborts. Especially in the
application/filter area, though, those were indeed often used in a
"um, not sure, looks fishy here, let's do something"-kinda way.

Generally, cleaning that up (and converting the mis-used assertions
I mentioned into some warning) would be greatly appreciated.
Something for past-3-4 and a feature branch? IIRC OOo had some plans
to make at least smoketest completely 'assertion'-free.

Cheers,

-- Thorsten
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