Re: [Mingw-msys] Are the MinGW signal handling routines robust?

[Greg C. <chi...@co...>]

On 2005-01-14 16:53 PM, Angus Leeming wrote:

> Excuse the rather direct question, but this little lot (from the MinGW
> signal.h) doesn't exactly inspire confidence:
[...]
>  *       SIGILL has not been tested.
>  *       SIGFPE doesn't seem to work?

I thought SIGFPE worked, but haven't tested it in years.

>  *       SIGSEGV does not catch writing to a NULL pointer
> 
> I'm slowly porting LyX (www.lyx.org) from *nix to windows. Should I rely on
> MinGW's signal handling routines or should I be investigating how to
> rewrite the code below in a native Windows manner?

I don't know; but these messages might shed some light:
   http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=5932861
   http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=4156732
   http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.mingw.user/248
   http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.mingw.user/5253
and a search of the archives will find others.