How to handle assert() in Windows GUI apps?

[Jesse Phillips]

On Fri, 08 Apr 2011 07:29:37 -0400, Kagamin wrote:

> Jonathan M Davis Wrote:
> 
>> On 2011-04-07 14:19, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
>> > Everything works fine now, please disregard my silly thread. :)
>>  
>> Well, whatever you're doing, you almost certainly shouldn't be catching
>> Errors (AssertErrors or otherwise). That's generally a very bad idea.
>> Very little cleanup is done when Errors are thrown. finally blocks get
>> skipped. scope statements get skipped. Destructors get skipped. Etc.
>> So, once an Error is thrown, it takes very little for the program to be
>> in an invalid state.
> 
> hmm, docs say different things:
> 
>> If code detects an error like "out of memory," then an Error is thrown
>> with a message saying "Out of memory". The function call stack is
>> unwound, looking for a handler for the Error. Finally blocks are
>> executed as the stack is unwound. If an error handler is found,
>> execution resumes there. If not, the default Error handler is run,
>> which displays the message and terminates the program.

Out of memory is somewhat special. It is supposed to be an Exception, but 
is an Error so that memory can be allocated in a nothrow function. It is 
also a much larger issue than most Exceptions as it can't be ignored like 
other exceptions.