Microsoft-specific exception handling mechanisms: Difference between revisions

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The Microsoft implementation of SEH is based on a patent licensed from [[Borland]], {{US patent|5,628,016}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://uninformed.org/index.cgi?v=5&a=2&p=4|title=Preventing the Exploitation of SEH Overwrites|date=September 2006|publisher=Uninformed Journal|

|author=Matt Miller [aka skape]}}</ref>. Open-source operating systems have resisted adopting a SEH-based mechanism due to this patent.{{Citation needed|date=July 2016}}

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