"Andrew" <marlow.andrew@googlemail.com>
>
> Yes. The Microsoft compilers turn SEGV etc into C++ exceptions. This
> means that catching exceptions by the base class will inadvertantly
> catch these cases. There is a way to programatically turn this
> behaviour off but obviously, such code is non-portable (you can
> surround it with #if WIN32...#endif).

Depending on version and switches...




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