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diff --git a/man3/assert.3 b/man3/assert.3 deleted file mode 100644 index 6f5a242..0000000 --- a/man3/assert.3 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,96 +0,0 @@ -'\" t -.\" Copyright (c) 1993 by Thomas Koenig (ig25@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de) -.\" -.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: Linux-man-pages-copyleft -.\" -.\" Modified Sat Jul 24 21:42:42 1993 by Rik Faith <faith@cs.unc.edu> -.\" Modified Tue Oct 22 23:44:11 1996 by Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> -.\" Modified Thu Jun 2 23:44:11 2016 by Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@redhat.com> -.TH assert 3 2023-10-31 "Linux man-pages 6.7" -.SH NAME -assert \- abort the program if assertion is false -.SH LIBRARY -Standard C library -.RI ( libc ", " \-lc ) -.SH SYNOPSIS -.nf -.B #include <assert.h> -.P -.BI "void assert(scalar " expression ); -.fi -.SH DESCRIPTION -This macro can help programmers find bugs in their programs, -or handle exceptional cases -via a crash that will produce limited debugging output. -.P -If -.I expression -is false (i.e., compares equal to zero), -.BR assert () -prints an error message to standard error -and terminates the program by calling -.BR abort (3). -The error message includes the name of the file and function containing the -.BR assert () -call, the source code line number of the call, and the text of the argument; -something like: -.P -.in +4n -.EX -prog: some_file.c:16: some_func: Assertion \`val == 0\[aq] failed. -.EE -.in -.P -If the macro -.B NDEBUG -is defined at the moment -.I <assert.h> -was last included, the macro -.BR assert () -generates no code, and hence does nothing at all. -It is not recommended to define -.B NDEBUG -if using -.BR assert () -to detect error conditions since the software -may behave non-deterministically. -.SH RETURN VALUE -No value is returned. -.SH ATTRIBUTES -For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see -.BR attributes (7). -.TS -allbox; -lbx lb lb -l l l. -Interface Attribute Value -T{ -.na -.nh -.BR assert () -T} Thread safety MT-Safe -.TE -.SH STANDARDS -C11, POSIX.1-2008. -.SH HISTORY -C89, C99, POSIX.1-2001. -.P -In C89, -.I expression -is required to be of type -.I int -and undefined behavior results if it is not, but in C99 -it may have any scalar type. -.\" See Defect Report 107 for more details. -.SH BUGS -.BR assert () -is implemented as a macro; if the expression tested has side-effects, -program behavior will be different depending on whether -.B NDEBUG -is defined. -This may create Heisenbugs which go away when debugging -is turned on. -.SH SEE ALSO -.BR abort (3), -.BR assert_perror (3), -.BR exit (3) |