Unix Signals as OS Exceptions in C++

[Luca Saiu]

   [not completely related]

Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> It already works fine; just call throw from your signal handler.  This
> programs works as expected on i386 GNU/Linux if you type ^C during the
> sleep.

   On my machines the exception is regularly thrown in the signal 
handler, but it can't be caught by catch, not even by catch(...); the 
program aborts. This happens on all my machines (GNU/Linux PowerPC and 
x86), with all the GCC versions I have installed (from 2.95 to 3.4.2).
   No twiddling helped, as far as I tried.

   This seems a bug. Should I file a PR? Is it only me to see that?

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Luca Saiu, maintainer of GNU epsilon
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