My assert is not caught and the test fails

[GoogleCodeExporter]

I just downloaded your product and hopefully my company Oceaneering will use 
this framework, however, I'm running into some issues and need your help. In 
our constructors we have user-defined MACROS for asserts such as:

AdapterPort::AdapterPort( Port* port )
{
    V_ASSERT( port != nullptr, "port must not be nullptr" );
}

So I'm trying to test this assert fires with your google test. I write:

EXPECT_DEATH(AdapterPort(nullptr), "Constructor does not accept a nullptr as a 
parameter");

But my user defined assert goes through and the test fails. My assert happens 
before the google test MACRO can even catch it. Am I using the correct macro? 
Or what's going on..?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 24 Oct 2014 at 3:59