Re: [Mingw-users] Catching access violation errors

[Oscar F. <of...@wa...>]

Danny Smith <dan...@ya...> writes:

>  --- Oscar Fuentes <of...@wa...> wrote: 
> > 
> > This test case illustrates how you can convert an access violation (a
> > Seg Fault on Linux parlance) to a well-behaved C++ expception. If
> > anyone knows a better way or are aware of any problem with this
> > approach, I would grateful to hear your comments.
> > 
> > BTW, this does not works with gcc 3.0.3 on Cygwin.
> 
> It does work with 3.1 on mingw.

Thanks for the info, Danny. GCC 3.1 looks really promising.

There is at least one problem with the 'signal' approach for detecting
AV's, division-by-zero, etc. It is not thread safe. In any case, my
proposed solution needs to go a long way through testing and
investigation before entering into production code.

-- 
Oscar