Steve Teale wrote: > ... > > So it seems there is a safety net in Windows, but not in Linux. Is this how > it is supposed to be?
Under Windows, access violations cause the OS to throw an exception. Since D uses the same EH mechanism as the OS, this integrates nicely. Under linux, SIGSEGV is a signal, and you can't safely throw exceptions from signal handlers, so D just aborts. As far as I understand it, it's a limitation of the way linux is designed.
