//***************************************************************
// From the book "Win32 System Services: The Heart of Windows 98
// and Windows 2000"
// by Marshall Brain
// Published by Prentice Hall
//
// Copyright 1995, by Prentice Hall.
//
// This code catches an invalid pointer reference exception.
//***************************************************************

// catch.cpp

#include <windows.h>
#include <iostream.h>

VOID main(VOID)
{
  CHAR *ptr;

  // point the pointer to an
  // invalid address
  ptr=NULL;

  __try
  {
    // attempt to assign a value
    // to the location pointed
    // to by the pointer
    *ptr=5;
  }
  __except(EXCEPTION_EXECUTE_HANDLER)
  {
    // report the exception type
    cerr << "Caught exception code: 0x"
      << hex << GetExceptionCode()
      << endl;
  }
}