[Kst] [Bug 120823] Crash if attempt to read past end of dirfile.

[George Staikos]

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------- Additional Comments From staikos kde org  2006-01-26 20:18 -------
On Thursday 26 January 2006 14:10, Andrew Walker wrote:
> ------- The ascii data source doesn't crash under the same conditions and
> the only difference is the samplesPerFrame value. It seems clear that the
> asserts are unnecessarily causing a crash.


 a) asserts don't cause crashes, they cause signals which are not typically 
caught, and are not emitted in release builds
 b) those asserts were added because they were catching improper behavior by 
datasources and/or Kst
 c) "because it crashes the app" is not a reason why the assert is wrong.