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@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
.\" 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 2023-07-20 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01"
+.TH assert 3 2023-10-31 "Linux man-pages 6.7"
.SH NAME
assert \- abort the program if assertion is false
.SH LIBRARY
@@ -15,14 +15,14 @@ Standard C library
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
.B #include <assert.h>
-.PP
+.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.
-.PP
+.P
If
.I expression
is false (i.e., compares equal to zero),
@@ -34,13 +34,13 @@ 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:
-.PP
+.P
.in +4n
.EX
prog: some_file.c:16: some_func: Assertion \`val == 0\[aq] failed.
.EE
.in
-.PP
+.P
If the macro
.B NDEBUG
is defined at the moment
@@ -70,12 +70,11 @@ T{
.BR assert ()
T} Thread safety MT-Safe
.TE
-.sp 1
.SH STANDARDS
C11, POSIX.1-2008.
.SH HISTORY
C89, C99, POSIX.1-2001.
-.PP
+.P
In C89,
.I expression
is required to be of type