Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 12:04:00 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Prevent crash on free()
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On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Marcus wrote:

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

You can install a handler for the signal SIGSEGV.  If that handler
longjmp's, then it will indeed work.  But if it returns to the same
place where the problem happened, the progarm will still crash.

You install a signal handler by calling library function `signal'.
Look it up in the library reference docs.