diff --git a/googletest/src/gtest.cc b/googletest/src/gtest.cc
index 09af1517..e97e7445 100644
--- a/googletest/src/gtest.cc
+++ b/googletest/src/gtest.cc
@@ -5457,7 +5457,8 @@ void UnitTest::AddTestPartResult(TestPartResult::Type result_type,
     // in the code (perhaps in order to use Google Test assertions
     // with another testing framework) and specify the former on the
     // command line for debugging.
-    if (GTEST_FLAG_GET(break_on_failure)) {
+    if (GTEST_FLAG_GET(break_on_failure) &&
+      result_type != TestPartResult::kNonFatalFailure) {
 #if defined(GTEST_OS_WINDOWS) && !defined(GTEST_OS_WINDOWS_PHONE) && \
     !defined(GTEST_OS_WINDOWS_RT)
       // Using DebugBreak on Windows allows gtest to still break into a debugger
diff --git a/googletest/test/googletest-throw-on-failure-test_.cc b/googletest/test/googletest-throw-on-failure-test_.cc
index 3b81a5a1..f388df6c 100644
--- a/googletest/test/googletest-throw-on-failure-test_.cc
+++ b/googletest/test/googletest-throw-on-failure-test_.cc
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ int main(int argc, char** argv) {
   std::set_terminate(&TerminateHandler);
 #endif
   testing::InitGoogleTest(&argc, argv);
+  GTEST_FLAG_SET(throw_on_failure, true);
 
   // We want to ensure that people can use Google Test assertions in
   // other testing frameworks, as long as they initialize Google Test