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On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 8:21 AM, Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au> wrote:

> This method works well in userland too.  Instead of assert() or abort(),
> use an null dereference, or more portably, a signal


Digressing quite a bit, doesn't abort() send a signal already, i.e.
SIGABRT?  And doesn't __assert() call abort()?

Cheers,
matthew