miniscript: convert non-critical asserts to Assumes #28678

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   sipa commented at 10:00 pm on October 18, 2023: member

   It’s better practice to use Assume for non-critical assumptions made in the code. This is especially relevant for P2P-exposed functionality, which I don’t believe is the case for miniscript, but still, use Assumes except in places where a crash or UB will be inevitable on a failed assert anyway.
2. miniscript: move satisfaction sanity check to its own function 88f8e44683
3. miniscript: convert non-critical asserts to Assumes 12ad92c882
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5. DrahtBot added the label Descriptors on Oct 18, 2023
6. fanquake requested review from darosior on Oct 18, 2023
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   darosior commented at 6:55 am on October 19, 2023: member

   Those checks can be reached through the RPC interface or the wallet. In the unlikely scenario they are reached in a release build it would be better if they raise an exception instead of continuing silently. For instance if the type of the miniscript descriptor you imported was miscomputed for some reason you probably don’t want to move forward and receive funds on it. Therefore i think it’s better to use CHECK_NONFATAL?
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   laanwj commented at 1:53 pm on October 31, 2023: member

   Concept ACK. Not having these potentially crash the application is an improvement. Also agree with @darosior though, we don’t want error conditions that can be caused by user input to go by silently, either.
9. DrahtBot added the label CI failed on Jan 17, 2024
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    maflcko commented at 5:57 pm on February 22, 2024: member

    Are you still working on this?
11. DrahtBot marked this as a draft on Apr 18, 2024
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    DrahtBot commented at 7:10 am on April 18, 2024: contributor

    Converted to draft due to inactivity
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    DrahtBot commented at 0:43 am on July 17, 2024: contributor

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    DrahtBot commented at 1:07 am on October 15, 2024: contributor

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    maflcko commented at 9:18 am on October 15, 2024: member

    @sipa @darosior It would be good to mark this as up-for-grabs, if you dropped working on it.
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    DrahtBot commented at 10:09 am on January 13, 2025: contributor

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    brunoerg commented at 10:40 am on January 23, 2025: contributor

    Concept ACK

    @sipa @darosior It would be good to mark this as up-for-grabs, if you dropped working on it.

    Any update on it?

18. 
    sipa commented at 3:36 pm on January 23, 2025: member

    Closing and marking as up for grabs.
19. sipa closed this on Jan 23, 2025

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20. sipa added the label Up for grabs on Jan 23, 2025
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    darosior commented at 3:38 pm on January 23, 2025: member

    I’ll open a PR on top of master which implements my suggestion.
22. fanquake removed the label Up for grabs on Jan 23, 2025
23. glozow referenced this in commit a4fd565191 on Apr 10, 2025
24. bitcoin locked this on Jan 23, 2026

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