Standard library header <cassert>

 

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<cstddef> <cstdlib> <version> <limits> <climits>	<cfloat> <cstdint> <new> <typeinfo>	<source_location> <exception> <initializer_list>     <compare>	<coroutine> <csignal> <csetjmp> <cstdarg>
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<concepts>
Diagnostics
<stdexcept>	<cassert>	<cerrno>	<system_error>
General utilities
<utility> <memory> <memory_resource> <scoped_allocator>     <expected>	<bitset> <tuple> <optional> <any>	<variant> <type_traits> <ratio> <chrono>	<typeindex> <functional> <stacktrace> <ctime>
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<string> <string_view> <cstring>	<charconv> <format>	<cctype> <cwctype>	<cwchar> <cuchar>
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<locale>	<codecvt>	<clocale>
Containers
<span> <array> <vector>	<deque> <forward_list> <list>	<map> <set> <queue>	<unordered_map> <unordered_set> <stack>
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<iterator>
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<ranges>
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<algorithm>	<execution>
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<complex> <random>	<valarray> <numeric>	<bit> <numbers>	<cfenv> <cmath>
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<iosfwd> <ios> <iomanip> <streambuf>	<istream> <ostream> <iostream>	<sstream> <spanstream> <fstream> <syncstream>	<cstdio> <cinttypes> <strstream>
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<regex>
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<filesystem>
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<thread> <atomic> <mutex>	<shared_mutex> <condition_variable>     <future>	<stop_token> <semaphore>	<latch> <barrier>
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<ciso646> <cstdalign>	<cstdbool> <ccomplex>	<ctgmath> <stdatomic.h>

 

This header was originally in the C standard library as <assert.h>.

This header is part of the error handling library.

Macros
assert	aborts the program if the user-specified condition is not true. May be disabled for release builds (function macro)

Synopsis

#define assert(E) /* see description */