Checking Programming Errors at Compile Time
Explore how to identify programming errors in C++ using assert for runtime checks and static_assert for compile-time validation. Understand the benefits of detecting errors early through compile-time programming techniques and how this improves code reliability and performance by catching issues before execution.
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Assert statements are a simple but very powerful tool for validating invariants and contracts between callers and callees in a codebase. It’s possible to check programming errors while executing the program using assert(). But we should always strive to detect errors as early as possible, and if we have a constant expression, we can catch programming errors when compiling the program using static_assert().