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- From: smryan@netcom.com (@#$%!?!)
- Subject: Re: How to use assert( )
- Message-ID: <smryanDpqBv7.E56@netcom.com>
- Organization: The Programmer formerly known as S M Ryan
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- Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 03:18:43 GMT
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- : The end user should never see the output of an assertion in an ideal
- : world. One reason for this is that a final build should be translated
- : with NDEBUG defined. The other (more optimistic) reason is, that all
- : possible problems that make an assertion fail should have been
- : detected during testing.
-
- It is preferable to have the program fail mysteriously for the customer
- with possibly the only opportunity to diagnose it gone.
-
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