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

[deadalnix]

Le 14/03/2012 21:28, Vladimir Panteleev a écrit :
> 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.

I'm not criticizing at all ! I think this is awesome ! I'm just trying 
to discuss way we can get to the next step.

Loosing EAX is harmless in the throwing case, but it is a problem for 
other tasks.

I didn't mentioned this into the topic, but I'm very enthusiastic about 
that !