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Subject: Re: [RFC] win32-nat.c: Handle EXCEPTION_INVALID_HANDLE as SIGSYS
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> Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:15:51 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> 
> > Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:39:58 +0100
> > From: "Pedro Alves" <pedro_alves@portugalmail.pt>
> > Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> > 
> > Maybe we can take the oportunity to implement more generic Windows exceptions
> > support, not just EXCEPTION_INVALID_HANDLE.
> 
> I think it's a good idea.  In my experience, any serious program that
> wants to handle signals and exceptions on Windows cannot avoid
> supporting a large number of important EXCEPTION_* exceptions, because
> unlike on Posix platforms, most of them are not translated into SIG*
> style signals, at least in native Windows programs (as opposed to
> Cygwin).

People might want to look at how we handle Mach exceptions; see
signal/signal.c and gnu-nat.c.