[issue10296] ctypes catches BreakPoint error on windows 32

[Kristján Valur Jónsson]

Kristján Valur Jónsson <kristjan at ccpgames.com> added the comment:

I _think_ that in our old 2.5 python (which had a backported ctypes from 2.6 to support 64 bits) we always got the JIT debugger i.e. with _ctypes.pyd and _ctypes_d.pyd.

This api, "DebugBreak" always invokes the JIT debugger, however the program was compiled (_NDEBUG, DEBUG, or not).
This is done by raising the breakpoint exception and apparently _ctypes.pyd is catching that exception and handling it, but only in release mode, while I think it shouldn't do.

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