Reasoning:
- implementation was unsound -- broke down when I added a fairly
basic macro definition expanding to a struct initializer in a *.c
file.
- made it way too easy (e.g. via otherwise totally innocuous git
commands) to end up with timestamps such that it always ran
MakeHeader.py but never used its output, leading to overbuild noise
when running what should be a null 'make'.
- but mostly: it's just an awkward way of dealing with C code.
__attribute__((nonnull)) will help catching "calling with NULL" mistake on
compile time.
I also convert xStrdup into a macro, that will do assert() inline when the
code is *not* built with -DNDEBUG . For release builds (with -DNDEBUG),
preprocessor trick will ensure that generated code remains the same.
Christian Göttsche