[Lazarus] External: SIGSEGV

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Tue, 27 May 2008, Jon Foster wrote:

> 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. You have to muck about with signals to catch it
> with try ... except.

This is not correct.
The RTL catches this signal and converts this to an exception, if you use the sysutils unit.

Michael.