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From: jih@ox.com (John Hritz)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Source File Organization
Summary: Use of assertions for defensive programming
Message-ID: <1991Mar1.205033.6223@ox.com>
Date: 1 Mar 91 20:50:33 GMT
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The approach I take when faced with this kind of problem is to place an
assert statement in the main() as a check.
	assert(sizeof(a)  == sizeof(b))
will probably do the trick.  These statements can be left out of the code
by setting a compile switch, usually NDEBUG.
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