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On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 05:28:44PM +0000, segaloco via COFF wrote:
> On the flip side something I've always thought would be powerful, at least in development, is a way to tell any and all procedures being called to ignore their exception/condition handling and hard-crash. Of course you don't want to take that kind of hammer to a production situation, but a way to override any and all handling so that real errors become apparent would be incredibly nice.

#include <assert.h>