On 18 February 2011 04:25, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > I could never understand > why POSIX specified that a program should abort after an assert > (http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/assert.html). POSIX probably says that because C says that, and every implementation does that, and standardising anything different would have been incompatible with actual implementations. That's what assert does, it aborts the program if the assertion fails. If you want a different behaviour, don't use assert.
