Exception/Error division in D

[Regan Heath]

On Wed, 30 May 2012 22:36:50 +0100, Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg at gmx.com>  
wrote:
> In general, a segfault is definitely worse, but logic errors can_ be  
> just as bad in terms of the damage that they can do (especially in  
> cmparison with
> segfaults caused by null pointers as opposed to those caused by memory
> corruption). It all depends on what the logic error is and what happens  
> if you try and continue with the program in such a state.

In fact.. a logic error - or rather an assert triggered by a bad argument  
or similar may be the result of memory corruption which was undetected  
i.e. buffer overflow on the stack overwriting an integer passed to a  
function which asserts it is within a range, and it isn't.  So, you can't  
even be sure that logic errors aren't caused by memory corruption.

R

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