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authorAndrew Cagney <cagney@redhat.com>2001-03-01 17:30:05 +0000
committerAndrew Cagney <cagney@redhat.com>2001-03-01 17:30:05 +0000
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Document pragmatics of why gdb_assert() is lowercase.
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diff --git a/gdb/gdb_assert.h b/gdb/gdb_assert.h
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--- a/gdb/gdb_assert.h
+++ b/gdb/gdb_assert.h
@@ -21,6 +21,11 @@
#ifndef GDB_ASSERT_H
#define GDB_ASSERT_H
+/* PRAGMATICS: "gdb_assert.h":gdb_assert() is a lower case (rather
+ than upper case) macro since that provides the closest fit to the
+ existing lower case macro <assert.h>:assert() that it is
+ replacing. */
+
#define gdb_assert(expr) \
((void) ((expr) ? 0 : \
(gdb_assert_fail (#expr, __FILE__, __LINE__, ASSERT_FUNCTION), 0)))