Re: xasserts and vertical motion.

[Richard Stallman]

    > You should be able to continue by typing the GDB `return' command
    > and then `c'.  Does it work?

    Not really.  I think that "abort" may be marked as "noreturn" in the
    GCC header files, and so GCC does not bother keeping the stack or code
    in a consistent state after return.

Perhaps you have to compile without optimization.

    As another consequence, without an explicit -fno-crossjumping placed
    into CFLAGS, all asserts in a function will use the same call to
    abort

That is another advantage to compiling without optimization.