Infering that the condition of a for loop is initially true?

[Andreas Schwab]

On Sep 18 2017, nisse@lysator.liu.se (Niels Möller) wrote:

> I imagine the C standard might specify that assert "completely
> disappears" if -DNDEBUG is defined. But maybe there's room for a
> -fstrict-assert optimization flag, to let assert always guide
> optimization?

The problem is that assert is not allowed to evaluate the expression
with -DNDEBUG, and side effects must not be carried out.

Andreas.

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