assert() with message

Question

I saw somewhere assert used with a message in the following way:

assert((\"message\", condition));

This seems to work great, except that gc

Answer 1

You could write your own macro that provides the same usage of _Static_assert(expr, msg):

#include 
#include 
#include 


/*
 * void assert_msg(bool expr, const char *msg);
 */
#if !defined(NDEBUG)
#define assert_msg(expr, msg)   do                  \
{                                                   \
        const bool  e_ = expr;                      \
                                                    \
        if (!e_) {                                  \
                fputs(msg, stderr);                 \
                fputc('\n', stderr);                \
                assert(e_);                         \
        }                                           \
} while (0)
#else
#define assert_msg(expr, msg)   do                  \
{                                                   \
                                                    \
        if (!(expr))                                \
                warn_bug(msg);                      \
} while (0)
#endif

I also have a macro warn_bug() that prints the name of the program, the file, the line, the function, the errno value and string, and a user message, even if asserts are disabled. The reason behind it is that it won't break the program, but it will warn that a bug will probably be present. You could just define assert_msg to be empty if defined(NDEBUG), though.