Throwing an exception from within a signal handler

Question

We have a library that deals with many aspects of error reporting. I have been tasked to port this library to Linux. When running though my little test suite, one of the

Answer 1

google g++ option

-fnon-call-exceptions

This is essentially what you want. I think this was developed due to pressure from apple for their OS. I'm not certain how supported it is on LINUX. And I'm not certain if one can catch SIGINT -- but all CPU triggered signals (aeh exceptions) can be caught. Coders needing this feature (and don't care about ideology) should create some pressure on the LINUX developer community so that it will be supported on LINUX as well one day -- after having been supported on Windows since nearly two decades.