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.\" Modified Sat Jul 24 21:42:42 1993 by Rik Faith <faith@cs.unc.edu>
.\" Modified Tue Oct 22 23:44:11 1996 by Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
.\" Modified Thu Jun 2 23:44:11 2016 by Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@redhat.com>
-.TH assert 3 2023-02-05 "Linux man-pages 6.03"
+.TH assert 3 2023-07-20 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01"
.SH NAME
assert \- abort the program if assertion is false
.SH LIBRARY
@@ -59,22 +59,30 @@ No value is returned.
.SH ATTRIBUTES
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see
.BR attributes (7).
-.ad l
-.nh
.TS
allbox;
lbx lb lb
l l l.
Interface Attribute Value
T{
+.na
+.nh
.BR assert ()
T} Thread safety MT-Safe
.TE
-.hy
-.ad
.sp 1
.SH STANDARDS
-POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008, C99.
+C11, POSIX.1-2008.
+.SH HISTORY
+C89, C99, POSIX.1-2001.
+.PP
+In C89,
+.I expression
+is required to be of type
+.I int
+and undefined behavior results if it is not, but in C99
+it may have any scalar type.
+.\" See Defect Report 107 for more details.
.SH BUGS
.BR assert ()
is implemented as a macro; if the expression tested has side-effects,