Github user jpeach commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/trafficserver/pull/363#issuecomment-162030676
It looks to me like the purpose of that assertion is to ensure that
```Diags::setup_diagslog``` is not called multiple times. If it was called
multiple times, the global ```diags_log``` would be leaked.
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