[Numpy-discussion] Proposed Roadmap Overview

Sturla Molden sturla at molden.no
Fri Feb 17 23:47:53 EST 2012




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> Why would you even see an exception if it is caught before it escapes? I would expect the C API to behave just as it currently does. What am I missing? 

Structured exception handling in the OS. 

MSVC uses SEH for C++ exceptions.

Memory allocation fails in gcc code. Instead of returning NULL, Windows jumps to the SEH handler set in the MSVC code... *poff*


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