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On 5/12/2011 5:47 PM, Nancy 3 wrote:

> I'm sorry. I assumed you wanted an ArithmeticException or some other
> Java exception on overflow, rather than an application fault ala SIGSEGV
> that brings down the whole JVM. :)

SIGSEGV can be trapped and redirected to the JVM to handle.  It's a 
hardware thing, not limited by any given implementation, *nix or otherwise.