Catch Segfault or any other errors/exceptions/signals in C++ like catching exceptions in Java

Question

I wrote a Linux program based on a buggy open source library. This library sometimes triggers segfaults that I cannot control. And of course once the library has segfaults,

Answer 1

You can use signal handlers. It's not really recommended though because you can't guarantee that you've eliminated the cause of the problem. The best thing to do would be to isolate it in a separate process- this is the approach Google Chrome takes.

If it's FOSS, the easiest thing to do would be to just debug it.