Bug 74873

Summary:	Eclipse code should be able to use asserts.
Product:	[Eclipse Project] JDT	Reporter:	Robert (Kraythe) Simmons <robert.simmons>
Component:	Core	Assignee:	JDT-Core-Inbox <jdt-core-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3
Version:	3.0
Target Milestone:	3.1 M3
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
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Description Robert (Kraythe) Simmons

2004-09-23 18:11:27 EDT

Currently if you embed asserts into eclipse plugin code, the platform will not 
run. I imagine this is because it is being disabled on the comand line that 
runs eclipse. This should be changed as assertions are very useful.

Comment 1 Sonia Dimitrov

2004-09-23 18:57:39 EDT

Moving to JDT Core for comment.

Comment 2 Olivier Thomann

2004-09-23 22:10:21 EDT

What do you mean by "the platform will not run"? If you run with -ea as a vm
argument, it should enable assertions at runtime.

Comment 3 Robert (Kraythe) Simmons

2004-09-23 23:28:52 EDT

I mean it should be configured to run that way by default or no developer can 
really use asserts.

Comment 4 Philipe Mulet

2004-09-24 04:02:44 EDT

Enabling assertions is not default behavior for 1.4 VMs either.