Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 19:30:08 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Andris Pavenis <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv>
cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: One small annoyance with DJDEV202 (980726)
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On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Andris Pavenis wrote:

> I suggest to add possibility to disable (at runtime) register and 
> stack dump after SIGABRT. When I'm using assert() in program 
> then the message outputted by assert() is often scrolled out of 
> screen (together with previous output).

This should only happen when `abort' is called from a deeply-nested 
function.

If you want to disable the crash traceback, just install a handler for 
SIGABRT, and have it call `exit'.  I think this is easy enough, and makes 
(yet another) DJGPP-specific global variable and/or environment variable 
unnecessary.

Also, if you don't want the traceback, why do you use `assert'?