[3803] in Athena Bugs
assert (3)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (djpan@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Mon Dec 11 11:01:23 1989
From: djpan@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 89 11:01:03 -0500
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Reply-To: Dimitri Jason Panagiotou <djpan@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
The man page for assert says:
It causes an exit(2)
In /usr/include/assert.h it says:
# define _assert(ex) {if (!(ex)){fprintf(stderr,"Assertion failed: file \"%s\", line %d\n", __FILE__, __LINE__);exit(1);}}
# define assert(ex) _assert(ex)
It exits with status 1.
- Dimitri
