This chapter provides an detailed discussion of exception and termination handling issues for those building Visual Fortran applications for x86 systems. The following topics are discussed:
To fully appreciate this discussion, you will need knowledge of Windows structured exception handling (SEH). A good reference on this subject is Chapter 16 in the book Advanced Windows (Third Edition) by Jeffrey Richter.
To employ some of the exception handling techniques presented, you will need a C language compiler, such as Microsoft's Visual C++ product (part of Visual Studio), which has support for try-except constructs or some other form of support for structured exception handling.