I saw this in an example Apple project called Rendering Terrain Dynamically with Argument Buffers
if (buffers.size() > 1)
{
assert (false);
return;
}
How would this behave any differently than the simpler assert(buffers.size() <= 1)?
What is the purpose of assert(false) in an if?
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In C assert is a macro that does nothing if NDEBUG is defined. In this case I'd guess assert(false) is inside the conditional to ensure that even if abort() is not called (because assert() was a no-op due to NDEBUG or redefinition) the function returns.
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