Re: converting signals to C++ exceptions

[Todd Kokoszka <kokostm at auburn dot edu>]

This is a C++ installation of standard system libraries. I haven't used it
though.

http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE-overview.html


On Mon 22 Jul 2002 at 15:38:58 -0700, Gokhan Kisacikoglu wrote:
> 
> I am not sure this can be done. Unix signals are handled by service
> functions that you install prior, they are invoked regardless the state
> of your program (even though it is more than likely that your program is
> causing the signal other than few system resource problems). So, once
> the signal is handled by your handler function, it will not return where
> your program was left off, the handler function decides on what to do
> next -most of the time your program is expected to exit anyway. Hence,
> it is probably not possible to apply a catch method, because the unix OS
> would not know which catch to call when your handler function returns
> -there can be several instances in the memory that could handle-, but
> you can call the same clean up functions that you would call at the
> catch construct from the handler function -basically, you just need to
> keep few globals around to find out the leaking data or the data to be
> recovered...
> 
> HTH,
> Gokhan
> 
> Alexy Khrabrov wrote:
> > 
> > Is there a reasonable way to convert Unix signals
> > to C++ exceptions on Linux with g++?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Alexy
>