"Dennis Cote" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The Makefile generated does not contain the -DNDEBUG flag.
Richard already answered your primary question. Just for explanation, though,
defining NDEBUG *turns off* assert() statements. Think of the NDEBUG macro to
mean "No DEBUG".
NAME
assert - abort the program if assertion is false
SYNOPSIS
#include <assert.h>
void assert(scalar expression);
DESCRIPTION
If the macro NDEBUG was defined at the moment <assert.h> was last
included, the macro assert() generates no code, and hence does nothing
at all. Otherwise, the macro assert() prints an error message to stan-
dard output and terminates the program by calling abort() if expression
is false (i.e., compares equal to zero).
The purpose of this macro is to help the programmer find bugs in his
program. The message "assertion failed in file foo.c, function
do_bar(), line 1287" is of no help at all to a user.
