Re: [jdt-dev] Use of Java asserts in ECJ

[Stephan Herrmann <stephan.herrmann@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 21.04.24 21:49, Aaron Digulla via jdt-dev wrote:
> > PS: Does anyone know, if it is possible to set -ea programmatically? 
> In that case the ECJ Main could do just that for asserts that in other 
> use cases could be ignorable 🙂
>
> Might be possible but that needs to happen before the class with the 
> assert is loaded: 
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5558731/how-to-programmatically-enable-assert 
Thanks, Aaron.
> A much cleaner solution would be to replace the assert with a method 
> call which has a guard that we can disable with a compiler option.
> ...

I feel that would be overkill, given that we already have a standard red 
alert mechanism in the compiler: raising AbortCompilation (directly or 
via ProblemHandler).

best,
Stephan