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On 2/17/2011 11:49 AM, Stan wrote:
>
> The issue is triggering an assert dumps core.

It's supposed to.  The core gets you a backtrace, the exact line of code 
which tripped the assertion (you can't always tell just from the text of 
the assert()), the state of variables, etc.  This is a very good thing; 
we wouldn't want it any other way.

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