Exception handling

[Fergus Henderson]

On 26-Aug-2002, Serguei I. Ivantsov <admin@gsc-game.kiev.ua> wrote:
> >GCC does not catch hardware exceptions like divide by 0 and other traps.
> >Look at signal(3) for information on how to trap these on UNIX's.
> 
> What can I do if I want to execute some function from dll (server plugin)
> safely?
...
> Is it possible, like in M$ ?

If you really want safety, then you need to use a different programming
language, e.g. Java, C#, or Haskell, for your plug-ins.  Current C++
implementations ("M$" included) do not support safe execution of
untrusted code.

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