Date:	Wed, 1 Mar 2000 05:51:22 +0600 (LKT)
From:	Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel <kalum AT crosswinds DOT net>
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Subject:	Re: Prevent crash on free()
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On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Marcus wrote:

> 
> Maybe you can answer this. Is it possible to do a catch a crash? :)
> I mean, prevent the program from crashing. Instead raise an exception or
> something like that.

I think the SIGNAL handling mechanism would help you a lot here. Infact
the crash dump that you see sometimes is printed by a handler which
catches the SIGSEGV etc and handles it.

The libc reference (info libc) has a large section called signal
functions. 

The signal function itself contains a lot of info and I think it would be
nice if you could check out the signal funcion in the djgpp libc
reference. It most probably is what you are looking for.

Grendel

> 
> Hi, I'm a signature virus. plz set me as your signature and help me spread
> :)

This virus certainly seems very popular :-) only ~80 bytes too

Hi, I'm a signature virus. plz set me as your signature and help me spread
:)

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