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Unconditionally abort the current application. It is up to the caller to first output a useful message describing the location of the failure.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bsls_assertimputil.h>`

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[[noreturn]]
static
void
failByAbort();
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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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