[prog] C programming - capturing information sent to stdout

[Sue Stones]

Despite what people have said about assert resulting in a core dump and 
program death, I have found that it does neither.  It prints an error 
message, and perhaps leaves the function, but the program still runs.  I 
wasn't entirely surprised because I had read that somewhere on the net 
while I was trying to understand this yesterday.  Is this a difference 
in compilers?  Could it be a difference between C and C++?

sue