Catching a hot potato

[Sean Kelly]

I've worked on an app that did demand-based dynamic loading of memory using the segfault handler.  So there are definitely uses for this, they just aren't common. 

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On Oct 17, 2011, at 10:21 AM, Norbert Nemec <Norbert at Nemec-online.de> wrote:

> On 17.10.2011 14:54, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> Your best bet is to close the application, and possibly print a stack
>> trace. Trying to continue is like continuing to drive when you get a
>> flat tire. You are just going to keep damaging your car!
> 
> To stick with this nice analogy:
> 
> Trying to recover fully from a segfault is indeed like continuing to ride with a flat tire. Bad idea!
> 
> Accepting the system default segfault handling is like abandoning the whole valuable truckload just because of a flat tire. Not such a good idea either.
> 
> Sure, an emergency save may fail because of the memory corruption, but there is a very good chance that it still works because the essential data structures happen to be unaffected.