std library hooks

[Sean Kelly]

On Apr 13, 2012, at 12:28 PM, Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com> wrote:

> On 2012-04-13 17:26, Sean Kelly wrote:
>> Because no one used it. Sounds like I may need to un-deprecate it for 2.060.
> 
> Yes, please. There are now several people that want to use it. But does the compiler handles this correctly? I think you previously mentioned something about this.

DMD requires that you throw from the assert handler (at least when you compile with the -release flag or similar). That limitation is the other reason I deprecated the assert handler, but I imagine there are plenty of uses for it that exit with a throw.