(Just a note) In debug mode the Shadow logger will override this behaviour, but will still abort in utility_assert() -> utility_handleError().

if (level == LOGLEVEL_ERROR) {
    ...

    /* now abort, but get a backtrace */
    utility_assert(FALSE && "failure due to error-level log message");
}

(Just a note) In debug mode the Shadow logger will override this behaviour, but will still abort in utility_assert() -> utility_handleError().

if (level == LOGLEVEL_ERROR) {
    ...

    /* now abort, but get a backtrace */
    utility_assert(FALSE && "failure due to error-level log message");
}

Yeah, I was initially planning on changing it, but decided to leave it in place since the utility_assert also prints a stack backtrace. Maybe that behavior would be worth adding to the base logger as well, but it'd take a little work since currently utility_assert is part of Shadow itself.