[coreboot] [RFC] ASSERT

[Stefan Reinauer]

Hi,

I rewrote the ASSERT() and BUG() implementations (src/include/assert.h)
from scratch.
The old one used different messages for preram and ram stages and would
not print any warnings if CONFIG_DEBUG was disabled.
In the case of CONFIG_DEBUG the code would die().

I wonder if that's the behavior we want. If something is bad enough to
stop a system during development, maybe the warning should not
be ignored completely when it happens in a productive system? I think we
should always print a warning if the code is inconsistent.

Also, do we want to die() on an assert? I believe in most cases we
don't.The worst case that happens when we run into a bug or assert
situation is that we can not boot the system.
But in some cases it's not that bad.. like in the mptable / acpi
generator or some IOAPIC and SuperIO drivers. We might still be able to
boot into a system and flash a new, fixed coreboot
image, but in case of a die() we desperately brick the system. I think
we should not do that.

What do you think?

Stefan

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