EXCEPTION_POINTERS

The EXCEPTION_POINTERS structure contains an exception record with a machine-independent description of an exception and a context record with a machine-dependent description of the processor context at the time of the exception.

typedef struct _EXCEPTION_POINTERS {
  PEXCEPTION_RECORD ExceptionRecord; 
  PCONTEXT ContextRecord; 
} EXCEPTION_POINTERS, *PEXCEPTION_POINTERS; 

Members

ExceptionRecord

Pointer to an EXCEPTION_RECORD structure that contains a machine-independent description of the exception.

ContextRecord

Pointer to a CONTEXT structure that contains a processor-specific description of the state of the processor at the time of the exception.

Requirements

  Windows NT/2000: Requires Windows NT 3.1 or later.
  Windows 95/98: Requires Windows 95 or later.
  Header: Declared in Winnt.h; include Windows.h.

See Also

Structured Exception Handling Overview, Structured Exception Handling Structures, GetExceptionInformation, CONTEXT, EXCEPTION_RECORD