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From: ka@cs.washington.edu (Kenneth Almquist)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: assert(): a "tutorial"
Summary: Failed assertions should generate a core dump.
Keywords: assert()
Message-ID: <11448@june.cs.washington.edu>
Date: 14 Apr 90 08:24:08 GMT
References: <48461@lanl.gov>
Organization: U of Washington, Computer Science, Seattle
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An implementation of assert() for UNIX should call abort() rather than
exit() when the assertion fails.  This way, a core dump will be generated
and you can debug the code without having to reproduce the error condition.
				Kenneth Almquist