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4.2  Diagnostics  <assert.h>

4.2.1  Program diagnostics

4.2.1.1  The assert macro

Some implementations tolerate an arbitrary scalar expression as the argument to assert, but the Committee decided to require correct operation only for int expressions.  For the sake of implementors, no hard and fast format for the output of a failing assertion is r