On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Alex Zepeda wrote:

> On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Chris Schlaeger wrote:
> 
> > I haven't found a single call to abort(). So I tried the assign()
> > calls. All of them are in situations where it makes no sense to
> > continue. There might be nicer ways to terminate an application but
> > since all I have to worry about are open files and allocated memory I
> > see no reason not to use assert().
> 
> assert(), calls abort which calls kill.... which kills the program..
> Which as far as I'm concerned is stupid.  If the program can't run, it
> should let the user know in a more informative way than "abort trap..".

Isn't the user suposed to run a build with -DNDEBUG, so assert is a noop?

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