Scope failure is not preventing application crush in case of uncaught exceptions

[Anonymouse]

On Sunday, 17 December 2017 at 08:10:06 UTC, codephantom wrote:
> On Sunday, 17 December 2017 at 00:10:27 UTC, Anonymouse wrote:
>> If you return inside a scopeguard though, the exception (or 
>> error!) is swallowed. https://run.dlang.io/is/GEtQ6D
>
> The scope guard will not 'swallow' it, if you use -release mode.
>
> Which suggests to me, that assert(0) operates differently when 
> 'not' using -release mode.
>
> My 'guess' is, that release mode issues a halt instruction, 
> whereas in non-release mode it is just an exception like any 
> other exception.

Apologies. I chose assert(0) just to show that it catches Errors 
too, so just replace it with throw new Exception and it behaves 
the same without opening that can of worms.