ASSERT(3) Library Functions Manual ASSERT(3)

assert — insert program diagnostics

#include <assert.h>

void assert(int expression);

The assert() macro inserts diagnostics into programs. When it is executed, if expression is false (that is, compares equal to 0), assert() writes information about the particular call that failed (including the text of the argument, the name of the source file and the source file line number - the latter are respectively the values of the preprocessing macros __FILE__ and __LINE__) on stderr and calls abort(3) .

Forcing a definition of the name NDEBUG, either from the compiler command line or with the preprocessor control statement ahead of the statement, will stop assertions from being compiled into the program.

The assert() macro returns no value.

No errors are defined.

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abort(3) , stderr(3) , <assert.h> .

Derived from Issue 1 of the SVID.

February 1997 posix.fail