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Use the expression `comment`, `file` name, and `line` number from the specified `violation` to generate a helpful output message and then, after logging, spin in an infinite loop. Note that this handler function is useful for hanging a process so that a debugger may be attached to it.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bsls_assert.h>`

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[[noreturn]]
static
void
failBySleep(xref:BloombergLP/bsls/AssertViolation.adoc[AssertViolation] const& violation);
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== Return Value

[NOTE]
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This function https://en.cppreference.com/cpp/language/attributes/noreturn[does not return^].
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