Under win32, my assert method uses
if (IsDebuggerPresent()) { DebugBreak(); // ammounts to int 3 on intel }
Maybe that is the 4th alternative I couldn't think of earlier :-). I also thought of one more: emailling the system administrator. Useful on servers.
which I find better than the debugger catching an exception. At my last work place, we made asserts through exceptions but ended up with exceptions being thrown in destructors and such which wasn't very nice, especially if the destructor was being called during clean up because of a previous exception.
I hadn't thought of such issues. Is uncaught_exception() implemented in all modern compilers? Falling back on one of the other methods when it returns true instead of throwing an exception avoids some of the problems.
Darren
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