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On April 29, 2009, Roland Smith wrote:
> > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 assert(pcVer && "Problems getting GL version string usi=
ng
> > glGetString"); printf("ogre 110.1\n");
>
> The assert is weird. Why take an AND of pcVer and a string? Since the
> string is a constant non-null value, using the standard && operator is
> useless. Is the && operator overloaded by any chance? That could cause the
> trouble.

You are correct.  However. the most likely reason for including the string=
=20
inside the assert() macro is for diagnostics.  If pcVer were false, the mac=
ro=20
would cause something like the following to be written to stderr:

  Assertion failed: pcVer && "Problems getting GL version string ussing=20
glGetString", ...

Cheers,
=20
=2D- Norbert Papke.
   npapke@acm.org