Chapter 4. Exception Handling
Windows Structured Exception Handling (SEH) is the principal focus of this chapter, which also describes console control handlers and vectored exception handling.
SEH provides a robust mechanism that allows applications to respond to unexpected asynchronous events, such as addressing exceptions, arithmetic faults, and system errors. SEH also allows a program to exit from anywhere in a code block and automatically perform programmer-specified processing and error recovery. SEH ensures that the program will be able to free resources and perform other cleanup processing before the block, thread, or process terminates either under program control or because of an unexpected exception. Furthermore, SEH can be added easily ...
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