[dmd-internals] changeset 455

[Steve Schveighoffer]

----- Original Message ----
> From: Sean Kelly <sean at invisibleduck.org>
> 
> On Apr 28, 2010, at 1:25 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> It's not hard to write a segfault handler that 
> does this, but it involves doing technically illegal stuff in a signal handler 
> (either IO or throwing an exception) so I don't want to make it a built-in 
> feature.

syscalls are always legal because syscalls exit when signals occur (technically, they aren't even calls, they are software interrupts).  In other words, printf is illegal, write is not.

-Steve