Re: [Mingw-users] Error in gdb (ntdll.dll)

[Brian D. <br...@de...>]

Brian Elmegaard wrote:

> > particularly SEH and the debugging API.
> 
> I am not sure what SEH is?

Structured Exception Handling is the basis for how Windows handles all
types of fault conditions, both hardware and software, e.g. access
violation, divide by zero, invalid instruction, privileged instruction,
floating point overflow/underflow, stack overflow, and so on.  But it is
also a general purpose mechanism that applications can also use in
arbitrary ways, so it is not always associated with fatal error
conditions.

There is a very descriptive artice on the low level details at
<http://www.microsoft.com/msj/0197/Exception/Exception.aspx>.

Brian