That's why you define your own assert macro and keep in on unconditionally. Your programs will be better for it.
An assertion can be arbitrarily expensive to evaluate. This may be worth the cost in a debug build but not in a release build. If all of assertions are cheap, they likely are not checking nearly as much as they could or should.
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An assertion can be arbitrarily expensive to evaluate. This may be worth the cost in a debug build but not in a release build. If all of assertions are cheap, they likely are not checking nearly as much as they could or should.