From: Wolfgang Bangerth <bangerth@colostate.edu>
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2024 16:59:19 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Suppress exception output that is not very interesting.
X-Git-Tag: relicensing~74^2
X-Git-Url: https://gitweb.dealii.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=refs%2Fpull%2F16589%2Fhead;p=dealii.git

Suppress exception output that is not very interesting.
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diff --git a/source/base/exceptions.cc b/source/base/exceptions.cc
index 5bdbd85462..b839b9ef84 100644
--- a/source/base/exceptions.cc
+++ b/source/base/exceptions.cc
@@ -189,7 +189,13 @@ ExceptionBase::print_exc_data(std::ostream &out) const
   // condition, then output it. Not all exceptions do (e.g., when
   // creating an exception inside DEAL_II_NOT_IMPLEMENTED();), so
   // we have to check whether there is anything to print.
-  if (cond != nullptr)
+  //
+  // There are also places where the condition is not very interesting.
+  // Specifically, this is the case for places such as
+  //   Assert (false, ExcInternalError());
+  // Here, the condition is simply 'false'. This is not worth printing,
+  // so suppress this case.
+  if ((cond != nullptr) && (std::strcmp(cond, "false") != 0))
     out << "The violated condition was: " << std::endl
         << "    " << cond << std::endl;