Exceptions silently caught by Windows, how to handle manually?

Question

We\'re having problems with Windows silently eating exceptions and allowing the application to continue running, when the exception is thrown inside the message pump. For ex

Answer 1

After browsing similar questions I stumbled across this answer: OpenGL suppresses exceptions in MFC dialog-based application

"Ok, I found out some more information about this. In my case it's windows 7 that installs KiUserCallbackExceptionHandler as exception handler, before calling my WndProc and giving me execution control. This is done by ntdll!KiUserCallbackDispatcher. I suspect that this is a security measure taken by Microsoft to prevent hacking into SEH.

The solution is to wrap your wndproc (or hookproc) with a try/except frame."

I've filed a bug report with Microsoft, you can see their response here:
http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/550944/hardware-exceptions-on-x64-machines-are-silently-caught-in-wndproc-messages

From Microsoft:

Thanks for the report. I've found out that this is a Windows issue, and there is a hot fix available. Please see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976038 for a fix that you can install if you wish.