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0 pointsasveikau11y ago0 comments

You are wrong. assert is a no-op when NDEBUG is defined. Some compilers will set that for you in an optimized build.

Using an assert in place of real error checking or otherwise relying on its side effects is consequently a huge wtf in C.

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awda11y ago

More like, assert() from assert.h is a huge wtf in C, because turning asserts off in optimized builds produces exactly these kinds of scenarios.

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0 pointsasveikau11y ago0 comments

You are wrong. assert is a no-op when NDEBUG is defined. Some compilers will set that for you in an optimized build.

Using an assert in place of real error checking or otherwise relying on its side effects is consequently a huge wtf in C.

awda11y ago

More like, assert() from assert.h is a huge wtf in C, because turning asserts off in optimized builds produces exactly these kinds of scenarios.

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