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Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
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On Tue, 27 May 2008, Jon Foster wrote:
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<pre wrap="">SIGSEGV (otherwise known as a segfault) is a *nix signal indicating that the an illegal address was
accessed. Normally it can't be caught with a try...except. [...]
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This is not correct.
The RTL catches this signal and converts this to an exception, if you use the sysutils unit.
Michael.
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This is good to know. I'm certain that I've had segfaults without it
being turned into an exception and I always include SysUtils for the
exception handling.<br>
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THX - Jon<br>
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