How do I Make Asserts Behave the Way They Should on Linux?

[jitspoe]

So apparently Linux and/or gcc thinks asserts should terminate a program completely instead of just triggering a breakpoint and allowing me to step through it with a debugger.  How do I make them behave correctly?

[Krizdo4]

I'm not sure about the "right" way to do this but here's a suggestion.

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#include <signal.h>

#undef assert
#define assert(expression)  \
  ((void) ((expression) ? 0 : raise(SIGTRAP)))


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGTRAP

[jitspoe]

Thanks - I'll look into that.