[COFF] [TUHS] Re: To NDEBUG or not to NDEBUG, that is the question

[Dan Cross via COFF]

On Sun, Nov 9, 2025 at 10:22 PM <ori at eigenstate.org> wrote:
> Quoth Dan Cross <crossd at gmail.com>:
> > Post mortem analysis is undeniably useful. But I maintain that it is
> > _mostly_ orthogonal to `assert`.
>
> What are you doing with the printed values of assert (or the
> stack trace), other than post mortem analysis?

That's reductive.  Surely there is a qualitative difference between
reading an error message and invoking a debugger, no?  And as I said,
there are instances where you `assert` and no core file (or broken
process) to debug is produced.

        - Dan C.

(And of course I must acknowledge that I did misread your earlier
statement about stack traces being at times insufficient.)