On Thu, March 14, 2013 01:48, Xiangrong Fang wrote: > 2013/3/14 Ewald <ew...@yellowcouch.org> >> Once upon a time, Xiangrong Fang said: >> > Is it possible to use try...except to catch SIGSEGV? >> I don't know if it is possible, but how about using fpSignal()? See >> http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/baseunix/fpsignal.html >> > The document said it is "deprecated"? Also, I want this to be cross > platform, not for unix only. The use case is:
The documentation proposes the alternative too (however that is still platform specific indeed). > try > buf := GetMemory(1024); > size := 10240; > stream.Read(buf^, size); > except > ?? > end; What about trying it yourself? {$MODE OBJFPC} var P: PChar; begin try WriteLn (P^); except WriteLn (0); end; end. D:\TEMP>ppc386 -Mobjfpc t.pas Free Pascal Compiler version 2.6.2 [2013/02/12] for i386 Copyright (c) 1993-2012 by Florian Klaempfl and others Target OS: Win32 for i386 Compiling t.pas t.pas(5,12) Warning: Variable "P" does not seem to be initialized Linking t.exe 9 lines compiled, 0.5 sec , 26704 bytes code, 1644 bytes data 1 warning(s) issued D:\TEMP>t.exe 0 Tomas _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal