The Old New Thing

The x86 architecture is the weirdo: Structured exception handling

March 20, 2013 Mar 20, 2013 03/20/13

Raymond Chen

If your reference architecture is x86, then you will think that everything it does is normal and the rest of the world is weird. Except it's the other way around: The x86 architecture is the weirdo. I was reminded of this when commenter 640k complained, on the subject of what I think is table-based structured exception handling, "It would ...