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

[deadalnix]

Le 14/03/2012 18:00, Vladimir Panteleev a écrit :
> 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.

No but this does, make sense to catch segfault and act according to it 
to implement such a functionality. This is a very close problem.