StructuredExceptionHandlerSupressor.h   [plain text]

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#ifndef StructuredExceptionHandlerSupressor_h
#define StructuredExceptionHandlerSupressor_h

namespace WebCore {

#pragma warning(push)
#pragma warning(disable: 4733) // Disable "not registered as safe handler" warning

class StructuredExceptionHandlerSupressor {
    WTF_MAKE_NONCOPYABLE(StructuredExceptionHandlerSupressor);
public:
    StructuredExceptionHandlerSupressor()
    {
        // Windows puts an __try/__except block around some calls, such as hooks.
        // The exception handler then ignores system exceptions like invalid addresses
        // and null pointers. This class can be used to remove this block and prevent
        // it from catching the exception. Typically this will cause the exception to crash 
        // which is often desirable to allow crashlogs to be recorded for debugging purposed.
        // While this class is in scope we replace the Windows exception handler with 0xffffffff, 
        // which indicates that the exception should not be handled.
        //
        // See http://www.microsoft.com/msj/0197/Exception/Exception.aspx

        // Windows doesn't like assigning to member variables, so we need to get the value into
        // a local variable and store it afterwards.
        void* registration;

        __asm mov eax, FS:[0]
        __asm mov [registration], eax
        __asm mov eax, 0xffffffff
        __asm mov FS:[0], eax

        m_savedExceptionRegistration = registration;
    }

    ~StructuredExceptionHandlerSupressor()
    {
        // Restore the exception handler
        __asm mov eax, [m_savedExceptionRegistration]
        __asm mov FS:[0], eax
    }

private:
    void* m_savedExceptionRegistration;
};

#pragma warning(pop)

} // namespace WebCore

#endif // StructuredExceptionHandlerSupressor_h