Hello,

The documentation of InitializeCriticalSection tells me the following:
"In low memory situations, InitializeCriticalSection can raise a
STATUS_NO_MEMORY exception."
I'm writing in VC++ a class that wraps the CriticalSection API. How can I
catch such an exception with C++ exception handling ?

This issue led me to the general question: How do I catch exceptions raised
by the WIN32 API in C++ ?

Thanks,
Gadi Admoni.
SW Engineer, Radcom LTD.
http://www.*-*-*.com/ , http://www.*-*-*.com/ .

Gadi,

The way to do this is to use _set_se_translator() to install your own
callback function that will get called when a SEH exception is raised,
allowing you to throw a C++ exception from there. This allows you to easily
translate Win32 exception codes into a C++ exception class with all the info
you need.

Take care about one thing: _set_se_translator should be called for _each_
thread you start.

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