Is there a portable equivalent to DebugBreak()/__debugbreak?

Question

In MSVC, DebugBreak() or __debugbreak cause a debugger to break. On x86 it is equivalent to writing \"_asm int 3\", on x64 it is something different. When compiling with gcc

Answer 1

If you are trying to debug a crash-related condition, good old fashioned abort() will give you a call stack on most platforms. Downside is that you can't continue from the current PC, which you probably don't want to do anyway.

http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/cstdlib/abort/