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C++ In a Nutshell
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C++ In a Nutshell

by Ray Lischner
May 2003
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
808 pages
32h 24m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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<cassert>

The <cassert> header (from the C standard <assert.h> header) declares the assert macro. The <cassert> header is unique in that you can #include it multiple times to obtain different effects (depending on whether the NDEBUG macro is defined at the time of #include <cassert>).

Assertions are checked at runtime. You can use templates to craft compile-time assertions. See Appendix B for information about the Boost project, which supports compile-time assertions.

Instead of assertions, consider using exceptions, which offer more flexibility and control.

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