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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2018-2022 The Bitcoin Core developers
+# Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying
+# file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
+#
+# Check for assertions with obvious side effects.
+
+import sys
+import subprocess
+
+
+def git_grep(params: [], error_msg: ""):
+    try:
+        output = subprocess.check_output(["git", "grep", *params], universal_newlines=True, encoding="utf8")
+        print(error_msg)
+        print(output)
+        return 1
+    except subprocess.CalledProcessError as ex1:
+        if ex1.returncode > 1:
+            raise ex1
+    return 0
+
+
+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:")
+
+    # Macro CHECK_NONFATAL(condition) should be used instead of assert for RPC code, where it
+    # is undesirable to crash the whole program. See: src/util/check.h
+    # src/rpc/server.cpp is excluded from this check since it's mostly meta-code.
+    exit_code |= git_grep([
+        "-nE",
+        r"\<(A|a)ssert *\(.*\);",
+        "--",
+        "src/rpc/",
+        "src/wallet/rpc*",
+        ":(exclude)src/rpc/server.cpp"
+    ], "CHECK_NONFATAL(condition) should be used instead of assert for RPC code.")
+
+    sys.exit(exit_code)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()