Failed assertion dialog box

[William M. (Mike) Miller]

I've run into a problem running a collection of tests under Cygwin and I
wonder if anyone can suggest a way around it.

The problem occurs when a program being run fails a C/C++ runtime
assertion. Ordinarily, this just writes an error message on stderr and
aborts. Under Cygwin, however, if both stdin and stderr are redirected to
files, the program instead pops up a dialog box that must be interactively
dismissed before the failed program will exit - holding up all the tests
that follow it.

Specifically, if I have the following as assert.cpp:

    #include <assert.h>
    int main() {
      assert(false);
    }

and say

    gcc assert.cpp
    ./a.exe < /dev/null > output 2>&1

I get an error dialog box saying

    Failed assertion
        false
    at line 3 of file assert.cpp
    in function int main()

If I omit either the stdin or the stderr redirection, the program behaves
as desired with no dialog box.

Is there an environment setting or compiler command-line option I can give
to suppress the dialog box and always just write a message to stderr and
abort? Thanks for any insights.

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William M. (Mike) Miller | Edison Design Group
william.m.miller@gmail.com