Re: Catching Runtime Exceptions

[Rolf Magnus]

Kutty Banerjee wrote:

> Hi,
>  Is it possible using g++ under LINUX to catch segmentation faults,
>  access violation, other OS exceptions by using catch(...) ?

Those are not exceptions, those are Un*x signals. Use a signal handler
instead.

>  I know that MS VC++ has a mechanism whereby the above exceptions are
>  called structured exceptions and can be caught not classified t
>  hough, using catch(...) .

I wonder how that works. I mean, you can get a segfault before main() or
after it. How would you catch those?

>  was curious if there is something similar using G++.

Similar in the sense that you can handle such events, yes. Similar in
the sense that you get them as exceptions, no.