>> make a typo in a C program, the program stops and says "error: 
>> segmantation fault".
> 
> *If* you're lucky.  What's worse is when it *doesn't*. :-)

Worse Than Failure.

>> As far as I'm aware, you cannot catch segfaults.
> 
> You can, but not in a portable way.

I had a feeling the OS might provide a way to do this. (Presumably 
that's how the shell tells you your program segfaulted.) And that would 
make it OS-dependent...

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