From 47c7ade97e4026a66119537b27dedfaee4da7098 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh@quickfur.ath.cx>
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2012 11:44:10 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Throw error upon division by zero.

Instead of trying to trigger an integer divide by zero, which seems to
get "optimized" out by the compiler.
---
 std/bigint.d | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/std/bigint.d b/std/bigint.d
index b576f72eec3..c98ee6e722c 100644
--- a/std/bigint.d
+++ b/std/bigint.d
@@ -493,9 +493,8 @@ private:
     // Generate a runtime error if division by zero occurs
     void checkDivByZero() pure const
     {
-        assert(!isZero(), "BigInt division by zero");
         if (isZero())
-           auto x = 1/toInt(); // generate a div by zero error
+            throw new Error("BigInt division by zero");
     }
 }