un-catched segfault exception

[Sean Kelly]

philippe.quesnel wrote:
> Jarrett Billingsley Wrote:
> 
>> That's funny, cause on DMDWin you _can_ catch them. 
>>
>>
> 
> I just did a test C++ app in Windows (MsDev) .. 
> and I do catch exceptions thrown by a null ptr reference.
> Which is what I was expecting to happen in D.

Segfaults in Windows pass through the Structured Exception Handling 
mechanism, as do many other hardware-level errors.  It's the Windows 
response to signals in Unix.  And DMD is nice enough to turn these into 
D exceptions for you.  It sounds like GDC does its exception handling 
another way however, and does not.


Sean