Why are assertions in zlib on Unix switched off?

[Thomas Stüfe]

Hi everyone,

When building the zlib on Unix platforms, zlib assertions are switched off
explicitly using -UDEBUG:

     84 ifeq ($(PLATFORM), windows)

     87 else
     88 CPPFLAGS += -UDEBUG
     89 endif

This switches off assertions inside the zlib (see zutil.h, zutil,c inside
the zlib).

Does anyone know why this was done? And why not for windows?

Background: I investigate a case where we get a zlib assert on Windows and
I wondered why this did not show up on Unix.

Kind Regards, Thomas