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

[Vladimir Panteleev]

On Wednesday, 14 March 2012 at 20:20:05 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
> The topic is *Turning a SIGSEGV into a regular function call 
> under Linux, allowing throw*, not only Exception. I don't 
> understand what is the problem here ? Can't we talk about how 
> we could keep trash register clean in case we don't throw  - 
> this doesn't make much sense if we throw anyway - ?
>
> What your are mentioning here is already done. Nothing to 
> discuss about that. This is why I try to jump into the next 
> topic : how can we do more than just throwing.

OK. But (to me, at least) you sounded like you were criticizing 
the implementation for solving that specific task, so it would 
help if you were clearer of your intentions. For example, losing 
the contents EAX is relativery harmless, but the contents of EBP, 
EGS etc. can be very important.