[Development] Fwd: [Qt bugreports] (QTBUG-46505) assertion failure (=> crash) in harfbuzz-shaper

[René J.V. Bertin]

On Saturday June 06 2015 00:36:14 Thiago Macieira wrote:

Yes, I noticed that Qt4 doesn't use the system harfbuzz for whatever reason.

>> As asked in the bug report below: is it necessary to handle this situation
>> with an assert/abort, instead of simply returning (with whatever error the
>> void function in question can return)?
>
>The assert is inside HB, so it's not our choice.

Isn't that a bit easy if you're shipping an old version that is no longer maintained? Seems the least one could do in this particular case is to ensure that in release mode the stuff is built with -DNDEBUG to deactivate the assert() side-effects (and "take it like a man" when that leads to other crashes and bug reports :) )

R