On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 8:21 AM, Bruce Evans <brde at optusnet.com.au> wrote: > This method works well in userland too. Instead of assert() or abort(), > use an null dereference, or more portably, a signal Digressing quite a bit, doesn't abort() send a signal already, i.e. SIGABRT? And doesn't __assert() call abort()? Cheers, matthew