On Sunday, 4 March 2012 at 03:15:19 UTC, Sandeep Datta wrote:
All we have to do now is provide a more specific exception (say NullReferenceException) so that the programmer has the ability to provide a specific exception handler for NullReferenceException etc.
Looks like it is pretty easy to do. Check out dmd2/src/druntime/src/rt/deh.d The Access Violation error is thrown on about line 635. There's a big switch that handles a bunch of errors.
I gave it a try on Linux but unfortunately it leads to a segfault
Yeah, Linux does it as a signal which someone has tried to turn into an exception before, which kinda works but is easy to break. (I don't remember exactly why it didn't work right, but there were problems.)
