Norton Allen wrote:

> > So maybe it looks weird.  C++ is like that!
> 
> I would argue that this isn't a feature of C++ in that it cannot be
> implemented within the language but must use assembler for a
> specific architecture, but I agree that the paradigm of not needing
> to check every case is very cool.

It uses the automatic destructor mechanism of C++ to cleanly remove the
SEH fault handler whenever the variable goes out of scope.  So in a
sense that is C++ magic, but the actual fault-trapping capability is
provided by SEH which is a service provided by windows and is
language-agnostic.

Brian

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