Cleanest way to explicitly crash an application?

My application has custom crash-handling built-in (see John Robbins' excellent book about "Debugging Windows Applications"). To test this functionality, I always used the Windows function DebugBreak() a开发者_开发问答nd this always worked perfectly. But since Windows 7, calling this function just says "A breakpoint has been reached" and stops the application without calling my crash handlers.

I could always put this code in my application to test the crash-functionality:

int *ptr = (int *)0xdeadbeef;
*ptr = 123456789;

Or even add several cases, just in case 0xdeadbeef is a valid address:

int *ptr = (int *)0xdeadbeef;
*ptr = 123456789;
ptr = (int *)0L;
*ptr = 123456789;
ptr = (int *)0xffffffff;
*ptr = 123456789;

But I was wondering: isn't there a cleaner way to crash your application under Windows?

Just create a null pointer to an object with some member functions a try and call one of them? And maybe do it in a function so you know what it daoes

void CrashApp()
{
    MyObject * ptr = 0;
    ptr->Function();
}

Definitely the easiest way and pretty clear whats going on

You can use __debugbreak() intrinsic instead of DebugBreak() function. This does not say anything and crashes with EXCEPTION_BREAKPOINT

RaiseException() is yet another way to crash.