Help needed with Big List of Dodgy Apps

[Matthew Woehlke]

Robert Kiesling wrote:
>> ?  I don't know what this means but Windows has the equivalent of SIGSEGV.
> 
> The signal is non-catchable by UNIX apps.  That ability would
> be useful when malloc goes whizzing off into the video RAM, but
> the issue is almost always a bug somewhere else in the app.  That 
> is not to say that the system libraries are perfect, of course.

Um... I can catch SIGSEGV just fine in my UNIX apps. Or did you mean 
cygwin apps can't catch it? (Granted, I don't attempt to *recover* from 
a SEGV, just say "hey, I got a SEGV" and either exit() or abort().)

-- 
Matthew
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