[Mono-dev] crashes in glib hangs (not exits) program

[Alan McGovern]

>  For some reason, catching the "unmanaged exception" has the correct
>  behaviour even though it could be just a side effect. Zoltan pointed
>  out that unmanaged exceptions are not converted to exceptions in mono
>  even though the windows side seem to do it and recomment using
>  AppDomain.UnhandleException to log the crash before terminating. I am
>  not sure how they do it ... since the unmanaged exception could have
>  corrupted basic data structures so much that even the logging might
>  fail.

Could MS.NET be using structured exception handling?

http://www.microsoft.com/msj/0197/exception/exception.aspx

Alan.