Hi,
Are Signal Handling part of ANSI C?
I am not able to find any reference of Sig Handling in Stephen Prata's "C Primer Plus".
The usage of signals is to trap errors I guess. (It looks similiar to the concept of try-catch to me.) It seems to relate more to nix OS. Are signals handling part of Windows too?
Yes, but an implementation need not generate the signals, except when the code calls raise().Originally Posted by Stanley S
>Are Signal Handling part of ANSI C?
A virtually useless subset of the expected POSIX signals, yes.
>I am not able to find any reference of Sig Handling in Stephen Prata's "C Primer Plus".
I'm not surprised. A C primer doesn't usually give you details on the lesser used parts of the library. You probably won't see the setjmp functions either in that book. A better reference like C: A Reference Manual will give you more info.
>It looks similiar to the concept of try-catch to me.
Similar in concept, perhaps, but signals aren't implemented nearly as well as exceptions are. You see them used a lot in the POSIX functions, but beyond that they don't seem to be common at all.
