Oh alright. Then we're in complete agreement. On Mar 6, 2012, at 8:05 PM, Walter Bright <newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote:
> On 3/6/2012 7:08 PM, Sean Kelly wrote: >> Minor point, but some apps are designed such that segfaults are intended. I >> worked on a DB that dynamically mapped memory in the segfault handler and >> then resumed execution. Since D is a systems languages, very few assumptions >> can be made about error conditions. > > Yes, and I've written a GC implementation that relied on intercepting invalid > page writes to construct its list of 'dirty' pages. > > There's nothing in D preventing one from doing that, although for sure such > code will be very, very system specific. > > What I'm talking about is the idea that one can recover from seg faults > resulting from program bugs.
