* The following assertions were used by various ROSE authors as if
  they were unconditional process termination, which they're not. They
  have been replaced in the ROSE library source code (but not in
  projects or tests) as follows:

   + assert(false)           => ROSE_ABORT()
   + assert(0)               => ROSE_ABORT()
   + ROSE_ASSERT(false)      => ROSE_ABORT()
   + ROSE_ASSERT(0)          => ROSE_ABORT()

  In most some cases, the following dead code has either been removed
  or commented out.

RPM-172