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[Sean Kelly]

On Mar 6, 2012, at 3:14 AM, Don Clugston <dac at nospam.com> wrote:
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> Responding to traps is one of the very few examples I know of, where Windows got it completely right,
> and *nix got it absolutely completely wrong. Most notably, the hardware is *designed* for floating point traps to be fully recoverable. It makes perfect sense to catch them and continue.
> But unfortunately the *nix operating systems are completely broken in this regard and there's nothing we can do to fix them.

Does SEH allow recovery at the point of error like signals do?  Sometimes I think it would be enough if the Posix spec were worded in a way that allowed exceptions to be thrown from signal handlers.