Turning a SIGSEGV into a regular function call under Linux, allowing throw

[Vladimir Panteleev]

On Wednesday, 14 March 2012 at 16:37:45 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
> Le 14/03/2012 17:08, Vladimir Panteleev a écrit :
>> On Wednesday, 14 March 2012 at 11:11:54 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
>>> You are loosing EAX in the process.
>>
>> When would this matter? EAX is a scratch register per ABIs, no?
>
> You may want to return from the function the standard way an 
> resume operations. To implement a moving GC using page 
> protection for example.

This doesn't have anything to do with turning signals into 
exceptions.