Running plugins in a sandbox

Question

I am designing a system in C/C++ which is extendible with all sort of plugins. There is a well defined C public API which mostly works with (const) char* and other

Answer 1

Have a look at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/1deeycx5(v=vs.90).aspx

I use /EHa in one of my projects to help me catch exceptions from libraries that do stupid things. If you compile your code with this setting a normal try catch block will catch exceptions like devide by zero, etc.

Not sure if there is some equivalent for this on Linux -- please let me know if there is..