Converting SIGSEGV signals to C++ exception in gcc/g++

Mihai Donțu mdontu@bitdefender.com
Mon Aug 22 01:43:00 GMT 2011


On Monday 22 August 2011 04:38:44 Mihai Donțu wrote:
> On Windows, the compiler uses the built-in exception handling feature
> called SEH, which is language agnostic. On Linux, the entire exception
> mechanism is provided by libstdc++ with some help from the dynamic
> linker and it can only handle application level exceptions, not
> operating system ones (eg. segmentation fault).

SEH is actually a generic term. See this for more info:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc301714.aspx

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