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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
