NAME¶
assert_perror - test errnum and abort
SYNOPSIS¶
#define _GNU_SOURCE /* See feature_test_macros(7) */
#include <assert.h>
void assert_perror(int errnum);
DESCRIPTION¶
If the macro
NDEBUG was defined at the moment
<assert.h> was
last included, the macro
assert_perror() generates no code, and hence
does nothing at all. Otherwise, the macro
assert_perror() prints an
error message to standard error and terminates the program by calling
abort(3) if
errnum is nonzero. The message contains the
filename, function name and line number of the macro call, and the output of
strerror(errnum).
RETURN VALUE¶
No value is returned.
This is a GNU extension.
BUGS¶
The purpose of the assert macros is to help programmers find bugs in their
programs, things that cannot happen unless there was a coding mistake.
However, with system or library calls the situation is rather different, and
error returns can happen, and will happen, and should be tested for. Not by an
assert, where the test goes away when
NDEBUG is defined, but by proper
error handling code. Never use this macro.
SEE ALSO¶
abort(3),
assert(3),
exit(3),
strerror(3)
COLOPHON¶
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