Re: Exception Handling
So by converting it to a C++ exception what am i gaining ?
Standard behavior.
<the following is just my opinion>
It is impossible to recover from an unexpected SEH exception. Half your
process memory could be overwritten for all you know.
The only thing you can do is to exit immediately.
If you expect a certain structured exception, you can recover.
Otherwise you should crash as soon as possible with a lot of noise.
Crashing immediately has 2 important benefits:
- it will be easier to reproduce the problem.
- data corruption will not spread.
catching the exception and turning it into a regular error can only worsen
the effects and make the real problem harder to find.
btw, catch(...) is pure evil because you have absolutely no idea how you got
there, so you have no idea how to recover. The only valid purpose is to be
able to exit cleanly if something unknown happens. trying to recover from ...
is impossible.
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Bruno.
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