abort(3) [x11r4 man page]

ABORT(3)						     Linux Programmer's Manual							  ABORT(3)

NAME

       abort - cause abnormal process termination

SYNOPSIS

       #include <stdlib.h>

       void abort(void);

DESCRIPTION

       The  abort()  first unblocks the SIGABRT signal, and then raises that signal for the calling process (as though raise(3) was called).  This
       results in the abnormal termination of the process unless the SIGABRT signal is	caught	and  the  signal  handler  does  not  return  (see
       longjmp(3)).

       If the SIGABRT signal is ignored, or caught by a handler that returns, the abort() function will still terminate the process.  It does this
       by restoring the default disposition for SIGABRT and then raising the signal for a second time.

RETURN VALUE

       The abort() function never returns.

ATTRIBUTES

       For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).

       +----------+---------------+---------+
       |Interface | Attribute	  | Value   |
       +----------+---------------+---------+
       |abort()   | Thread safety | MT-Safe |
       +----------+---------------+---------+
NOTES

       Up until glibc 2.26, if the abort() function caused process termination, all open streams were closed  and  flushed  (as  with  fclose(3)).
       However,  in  some  cases  this could result in deadlocks and data corruption.  Therefore, starting with glibc 2.27, abort() terminates the
       process without flushing streams.  POSIX.1 permits either possible behavior, saying that abort() "may include an attempt to effect fclose()
       on all open streams".

CONFORMING TO

       SVr4, POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008, 4.3BSD, C89, C99.

SEE ALSO

       gdb(1), sigaction(2), assert(3), exit(3), longjmp(3), raise(3)

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       latest version of this page, can be found at https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.

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								    2017-11-26								  ABORT(3)

ASSERT(3)                                                    Linux Programmer's Manual                                                   ASSERT(3)

NAME

       assert - abort the program if assertion is false

SYNOPSIS

       #include <assert.h>

       void assert(scalar expression);

DESCRIPTION

       This  macro  can  help programmers find bugs in their programs, or handle exceptional cases via a crash that will produce limited debugging
       output.

       If expression is false (i.e., compares equal to zero), assert() prints an error message to standard error and  terminates  the  program  by
       calling  abort(3).   The error message includes the name of the file and function containing the assert() call, the source code line number
       of the call, and the text of the argument; something like:

           prog: some_file.c:16: some_func: Assertion `val == 0' failed.

       If the macro NDEBUG is defined at the moment <assert.h> was last included, the macro assert() generates no code, and hence does nothing  at
       all.   It  is not recommended to define NDEBUG if using assert() to detect error conditions since the software may behave non-deterministi-
       cally.

RETURN VALUE

       No value is returned.

ATTRIBUTES

       For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).

       +----------+---------------+---------+
       |Interface | Attribute     | Value   |
       +----------+---------------+---------+
       |assert()  | Thread safety | MT-Safe |
       +----------+---------------+---------+

CONFORMING TO

       POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008, C89, C99.  In C89, expression is required to be of type int and undefined behavior results if it is not, but in
       C99 it may have any scalar type.

BUGS

       assert() is implemented as a macro; if the expression tested has side-effects, program behavior will be different depending on whether NDE-
       BUG is defined.  This may create Heisenbugs which go away when debugging is turned on.

SEE ALSO

       abort(3), assert_perror(3), exit(3)

COLOPHON

       This page is part of release 4.15 of the Linux man-pages project.  A description of the project, information about reporting bugs, and  the
       latest version of this page, can be found at https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.

GNU                                                                 2017-09-15                                                           ASSERT(3)