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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Future of Minix
Message-ID: <3077@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 26 Aug 89 11:36:43 GMT
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Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
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In article <20046@louie.udel.EDU> ONM64%DMSWWU1A.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Kai Henningsen) writes:
>How about assert() or some low-level variant thereof (that doesn't use
>fprintf)? That would still use #ifdef DEBUG, but make the code more readable.

I definitely agree that assert() is the way to go.  It is theoretically
elegant and efficient as well, since you can turn the checking on and off
with a compile time flag.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)