std library hooks

[Francois Chabot]

On Friday, 13 April 2012 at 21:29:37 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 4/13/2012 4:07 AM, Timon Gehr wrote:
>> http://dlang.org/phobos/core_exception.html
>> deprecated void setAssertHandler(errorHandlerType h);
>>
>> Why is it deprecated?
>
> Never found a use for it.

All I want, and I can guarantee that this is what Manu wants as 
well, is the ability to squeeze an asm { int 3; } or equivalent 
so that I can drop into my debugger at the point of assertion 
failure before the stack unwinds.