Add heap corruption exception handling #85
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We've been using
crash-handler
in Tiny Glade, and noticed a few quiet crashes, where our crash reporter had nothing to say. I suspect those are heap corruptions (in graphics drivers or DLLs that inject themselves into our app). Windows will not call the unhandled exception filter for those.This PR adds a vectored exception handler that gets to act first. VEH is only used to process heap corruptions in this PR, allowing the unhandled exception filter to process the rest.
Disclaimer: I have no idea what I'm doing, but it catches an intentional heap corruption in my test. Here's the heap corruption code (source), for science of course: