[Interest] Continued past failed assertions with MSVC

[Scott Bloom]

I do on a regular basis. Not sure why you say it’s a horrible dialog, it’s a message box 😊 with the assertion information.



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From: Interest <interest-bounces at qt-project.org> On Behalf Of Thiago Macieira
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Subject: [Interest] Continued past failed assertions with MSVC

When a Qt application fails a Q_ASSERT and was compiled against a debug-mode QtCore, with MSVC, it shows a debug dialog with three options: Abort, Retry, Ignore. It looks like https://www.google.com/search?q=_CrtDbgReport+dialog

This is a horrible dialogue that harkens back to the DOS days.

But the big problem is that "Ignore" button: it allows the application to ignore this condition and continue executing. I suppose people use it for debugging past failed assertions to see what else is going on.

So the question is: does anyone use this particular feature? Would you suffer terribly if we removed it? This would bring MSVC in line with the other compilers.

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