Thread: graceful failure on segFault?

I'm writing a program that's liable to have segfaults in the first few releases (lots of malloc'ed stuff, unlikely to debug it all in time).

I was just wondering if there's a way I can make the program fail a little more gracefully for the user when it hits one, for example popping up a dialog giving a link to report the bug

currently the only way I can think of doing this is by wrapping the program in a bat script (or something similar) that will watch for non-zero exit & call a popup program.

anyone got neater ideas/alternative methods?


the program's being written in dev-c++ (using C only tho, not c++)
for win32 systems

-mark

Use a signal handler

Code:

void trap ( int signal ) {
  // do magic here on a segfault
  // be careful about what memory you use here
}

int main ( ) {
  signal( SIGSEGV, trap );
  // rest of program
}

There might be something a bit more win32 specific