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From: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: assertions and debuggers
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Date: 22 Sep 90 07:14:57 GMT
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In article <18373:Sep2203:32:0790@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:
>[assert() calls exit() rather than abort() on a Sun 4]

So it does; how strange.  This violates every standard I've heard of for
assert().

Another nonstandard property of that implementation is that you need <stdio.h>
as well as <assert.h>, which restriction is not mentioned by the man page.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (karl@kelp.ima.isc.com or ima!kelp!karl), The Walking Lint