[Development] Disavowing the Lakos Rule for Q_ASSERT

[Marc Mutz]

On 29.08.24 17:31, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> What I'd like to change is:
> - for inline code, where the function's noexceptness is likely to be used in a  
>   noexcept expression elsewhere and that causes slower code to be used

How does that square with being tool-checkable? That sounds like a very 
subjective and hand-waving argument that will cause haggling about every 
patch that uses the rule.

> - for out-of-line code, where the precondition is unverifiable anyway (such as
>    "you've passed a valid pointer")

*cough* https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtbase/+/193707 *cough*

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