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by fulafel 3864 days ago
It's actually alarmingly common for Windows C/C++ apps to paper over crashes with SEH try { } catch (segfault) { /* seems to work */ } this way. Even Microsoft's own apps used to do it, maybe they still do. You run into this when running random apps under a debugger.
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There's nothing structured about core dumps. Better to do nothing so the developer can see a clean core dump.