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>But, you see, the assertion is no less false just because the process was aborted. The fact remains that there exists a reachable state for which the assert fails

Yes, Captain Obvious, and that reachable state is exactly what every programmer who uses an assert() statement expects when he writes it.

If there wasn't the potential for such a state, assert statements would do nothing ever in the first place -- so it would be kinda silly to even have them in.




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