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in reply to END blocks in perl

I happened to stumble upon this http://www.perl.com/cookbook/perlckbk2/solution.csp?day=1 (Perl Cookbook, section: 16.22. Turning Signals into Fatal Errors)

It discusses the sigtrap pragma.

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Re^2: END blocks in perl
by clueless newbie (Curate) on Oct 16, 2007 at 15:18 UTC
    Can this be used to catch the seg faults and some of the whatevers that Sid has mentioned?
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      You don't want a program that segfaults to continue. It tries to mess up the memory of your computer, and you should be glad it is not allowed to do so. A program which crosses its borders in that way should be examined and debugged immediately; it's not that kind of errors you can lightly sweep under the rug.

      --shmem 

      _($_=" "x(1<<5)."?\n".q·/)Oo.  G°\        /
                              /\_¯/(q    /
----------------------------  \__(m.====·.(_("always off the crowd"))."·
");sub _{s./.($e="'Itrs `mnsgdq Gdbj O`qkdq")=~y/"-y/#-z/;$e.e && print}
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