Windows / redirect STDERR to see assert messages

[Robert M. Münch]

When developing Windows GUI applications I use:

      // detach from console and attach to a new one, works for x86 and x86_64
      FreeConsole();
      AllocConsole();

      freopen("CONIN$", "r", stdin);
      freopen("CONOUT$", "w", stdout);
      freopen("CONOUT$", "w", stderr);

so that the GUI app opens a console for writeln() output etc. I assumed 
this should work for assert() messages as well. But it seems it 
doesn't. If an assert fails, I don't see any output. Is assert using 
something else? What's wrong about this approach?

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Robert M. Münch
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