On 07-Jul-00 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>>It's a macro that NetBSD uses just to be different from the rest of the
>>known
>>world which uses the assert() macro from /usr/include/assert.h.
>
> _DIAGASSERT() has its history and reasons (there was some proposal
> on it and _DIAGASSERT() implements that). it is not just to be
> different. I admit it is now equivalent to assert(). netbsd may need
> to clean them up...
It is slightly different in truth, because assert() is conditionally
defined on NDEBUG, whereas _DIAGASSERT() is conditionally defined on
DIAGNOSTICS. Also, it calls __diagassert() rather than __assert(),
although both functions take the same arguments, so I suppose it
could be performing additional behavior of some sort.
> itojun
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