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finally block is not executed after StackOverflowEx ception

Hi,
I noticed that finally block is not executed once I got
StackOverflowEx ception.
Is that a known feature or a bug?
Nov 16 '05 #1
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Vladimir,
Porbably that is becase the stack is full and no stack frame is created.
This makes impossible CLR to find your finally block. StackOverflowEx ception
is very extreme error so don't expect that you can recover gracefully from
this one. Normally it shouldn't happen if your code is ok.

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"Vladimir Arkhipov" <Vl************ *****@bayer.com > wrote in message
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Hi,
I noticed that finally block is not executed once I got
StackOverflowEx ception.
Is that a known feature or a bug?

Nov 16 '05 #2
This is hum... by design in the current version the CLR .
This exception is being thrown when there are only two more pages left free
on the stack, the CLR as opted to unwind the current context instead of to
continue and take the risk the OS aborts the process when the last stack
page gets full.
Not sure if/how whidbey will handle this.
Willy.

"Vladimir Arkhipov" <Vl************ *****@bayer.com > wrote in message
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Hi,
I noticed that finally block is not executed once I got
StackOverflowEx ception.
Is that a known feature or a bug?

Nov 16 '05 #3
On 21 Jul 2004 21:19, "Willy Denoyette [MVP]" wrote:
This is hum... by design in the current version the CLR .
This exception is being thrown when there are only two more pages left free
on the stack, the CLR as opted to unwind the current context instead of to
continue and take the risk the OS aborts the process when the last stack
page gets full.
Not sure if/how whidbey will handle this.
Willy.

I'd have thought that a Stack Overflow exception is always a bug (I can't
think of an occasion where it would not be). Given that, I think whatever
the runtime does is fairly reasonable....

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