assertion support

[Jeff Sturm]

On 12 Aug 2002, Tom Tromey wrote:
> Jesse> Also, what about support in gcj?  Would it make sense to be
> Jesse> able to set defaults at compile time, which could be changed at
> Jesse> runtime by a GCJ_ASSERTION_STATUS environment variable?
>
> Yes, adding an option to gcj to allow assertions to be disabled at
> compile-time would be nice.  I'm not so sure about the environment
> variable though.

Note that rhug currently doesn't build because jython declares methods
named "assert".

Jeff