Re: Catching Runtime Exceptions

[llewelly]

"Kutty Banerjee" <kuttyb@wpi.edu> writes:

>> I wonder how that works. I mean, you can get a segfault before main() or
>> after it. How would you catch those?
> Hi,
>  for understanding how this works under MS Visual Studio or the win32 as
> such,
>  refer
> "Programming Applications for Windows" by Jeffrey Richter. Hes got an entire
> chapter dedicated to "Structured Exception Handling" which is what this is
> called
>  in win32.

But g++ does not support SESE for any platform. And there are some
    who hold that SESE makes exception-safe code impossible; any
    exception-safe code must rely on operations that cannot throw,
    yet SESE can cause exceptions to emerge from any point.