From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Arun Sharma <asharma@nospam.netscape.com>
To: egcs@cygnus.com
Cc: egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: EGCS vs MSVC - exception handling
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 10:18:00 -0000
Message-id: <sn04t39h9eb.fsf@zugzwang.mcom.com>
References: <34bbf4a0.7558458@nntp.demos.su> <u1zyekkhq.fsf@finobj.com> <34bf0215.11003532@nntp.demos.su> <uzpl1kbmy.fsf@finobj.com>
X-SW-Source: 1998-01/msg00310.html

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to comp.os.linux.development.apps as well.

Paul Flinders <PaulFl@finobj.com> writes:
> 
> void handle_segv()
> {
> 	Segv exception ;
> 	
> 	throw ( exception );
> }
> 
> Should just about do it with the exception of unblocking signals (which
> you need to do as never exit the signal handler normally).
> 

A throw from the signal handler results in a core dump. One needs to
do more work to get this to work. Someone on the egcs list might have
already done this.

	-Arun

PS: The thread was about being able to catch null pointer exceptions
in egcs.