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Document number: N4154

Date: 2014-09-30

Operator assert

by David Krauss

Excerpt:

The assert macro has never behaved much like a real function, and for the foreseeable future, it will look and smell like an operator. The way the macro is specified by C precludes it from providing optimization hints in production mode, but allows it to execute arbitrary side effects in debug mode. Adding assert as a keyword and built-in operator would have benefits but essentially no downside.

This will resolve LWG DR 2234 and 2413.