EGCS vs MSVC - exception handling

[Arun Sharma]

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to comp.os.linux.development.apps as well.

Paul Flinders <PaulFl@finobj.com> writes:
> 
> void handle_segv()
> {
> 	Segv exception ;
> 	
> 	throw ( exception );
> }
> 
> Should just about do it with the exception of unblocking signals (which
> you need to do as never exit the signal handler normally).
> 

A throw from the signal handler results in a core dump. One needs to
do more work to get this to work. Someone on the egcs list might have
already done this.

	-Arun

PS: The thread was about being able to catch null pointer exceptions
in egcs.