[dmd-internals] changeset 455

[Bernard Helyer]

On 29/04/10 08:06, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 04/28/2010 02:53 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> I'm not sure to what extent segfaulting is detectable, but we
>>> definitely must find good ways to address that too.
>>>
>>
>> Debuggers are the standard tool for that.
>
> I hear you but don't have one, and I swore to never use gdb. Ideally 
> we should find a solution within the confines of the compiler.
>
> Andrei
> __________

But surely once a process has been sent SIGSEGV, we can't really recover 
from a generic handler? The process at that point is in an unknown 
state. The correct behaviour on SIGSEGV is to die.