I'm trying to find out what the bits mean in an SEH exception code. I found out that bit 28 is reserved by the system for system-defined exceptions from MSDN's article on RaiseException. However, given the exception code 0xC0000005, I can't discover why it is not 0x00000005. Is the bit pattern 0xC0000000 indicative of something not lost to the mists of time? If so, what is it?
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From the "Raising Software Exceptions" page on MSDN:
These two bits describe the basic status of the code:
11 = error, 00 = success, 01 = informational, 10 = warning.
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Ah ha! Thanks. I should have left the `SEH` off the list of search terms, apparently. Both Google and Bing failed to guess my intentions. – codekaizen Dec 29 '10 at 00:38