doc: Remove confusing assert linter

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/test/lint/lint-assertions.py b/test/lint/lint-assertions.py
index 6da59b0d48..d9f86b22b8 100755
--- a/test/lint/lint-assertions.py
+++ b/test/lint/lint-assertions.py
@@ -23,20 +23,10 @@ def git_grep(params: [], error_msg: ""):
 
 
 def main():
-    # PRE31-C (SEI CERT C Coding Standard):
-    # "Assertions should not contain assignments, increment, or decrement operators."
-    exit_code = git_grep([
-        "-E",
-        r"[^_]assert\(.*(\+\+|\-\-|[^=!<>]=[^=!<>]).*\);",
-        "--",
-        "*.cpp",
-        "*.h",
-    ], "Assertions should not have side effects:")
-
     # Aborting the whole process is undesirable for RPC code. So nonfatal
     # checks should be used over assert. See: src/util/check.h
     # src/rpc/server.cpp is excluded from this check since it's mostly meta-code.
-    exit_code |= git_grep([
+    exit_code = git_grep([
         "-nE",
         r"\<(A|a)ss(ume|ert) *\(.*\);",
         "--",