Q: Catch a segmentation fault

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jan 25, 2001, Roger Wernersson <roger.wernersson@mindark.com> wrote:

> the Win32-programmers put in some code to catch segmentation faults.

Segmentation faults generate signals on Unix, and signals aren't
translated into C++ exceptions.  You'd have to install a signal
handler, but it's not portable to throw from signal handlers either.
It might work for you.

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