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Asked: 2026-06-05T20:47:12+00:00

Unlike C++ exceptions, an Access Violation indicates your applications runtime is compromised and the

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Unlike C++ exceptions, an Access Violation indicates your applications runtime is compromised and the state of your application is, therefore, undefined. The best thing to do in that circumstance is to exit your application (generally done for you because it crashes).

I note that it is possible to catch one of these exceptions. In Microsoft Visual C++, for example, you can use /EHa or __try/__catch to do so.

So, what are the reasons you would want to catch them? As I understand it, there’s no way for your application to recover.

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    One reason might be to write a crash dump file; you would have more control over it and be able to write the exact type you wanted. In Windows, for example, you could call MiniDumpWriteDump to do this.

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