Re: [Mingw-users] <signal.h> and floating-point exceptions

[Benjamin R. <Ben...@ep...>]

Hi Steve,


"Steve Donovan" <sdo...@mw...> writes:
> I've been working on an interpretative environment in which it is
> vitally important that any error is properly caught as an exception.
> It is easy to use the C signal() mechanism to catch access
> violations, but I'm having difficulty enabling this for things like
> integer division by zero and floating-point overflow.

Division by zero is caught with SIGFPE (8) in a simple test program I
have just run.  What are your problems?

> The mingw signal.h header contains comments about lack of proper
> structured exception handling.  Is SE a completely MS-specific thing
> or can GCC-Mingw be made to catch these OS exceptions as well?

Yes, SEH is currently not supported by gcc. 


so long, benny