[gdal-dev] Building with SEH

[Even Rouault]

I won't really answer on the SEH part. I think that you'll still have to live 
with the fact that a remaining bug may cause memory corruption etc that will 
cause bugs elsewhere, etc... My experience showed me that If you really want 
to be sure that some library won't crash your application, the only reliable 
solution is to link it to a process with which your main application 
communicates through TCP/IP, pipes, or whatever... Or to provide enough 
information to help us fix the bugs.
So, as far as broken shapefiles are concerned, there's a pending patch to 
shapelib attached to http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/2218. This would be 
great if you could test it on your broken shapefiles and report if that 
solves your problem.

Best regards,
Even