On Saturday, September 22, 2012 21:19:27 Maxim Fomin wrote: > Privilege instruction is an assembly instruction which can be > executed only at a certain executive process context, typically > os kernel. AFAIK assert(false) was claimed to be implemented by > dmd as a halt instruction, which is privileged one. > > However, compiled code shows that dmd generates int 3 instruction > for assert(false) statement and 61_6F_65_75 which is binary > representation of "aoeu" for assert(false, "aoeu") statement and > the latter is interpreted as privileged i/o instruction.
It's a normal assertion without -release. With -release, it's a halt instruction on Linux but IIRC it's something slightly different (albeit similar) on Windows, though it might be halt there too. - Jonathan M Davis
