In article <14186:Sep2105:48:2290 at kramden.acf.nyu.edu>, brnstnd at kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes: [... entering the debugger via assert()/abort() ...] > Side note: I typed that in without having to think about it. How long > did your VMS solution take? #include <ssdef.h> #define abort() LIB$SIGNAL(SS$_DEBUG)