Try...Catch doesn't catch access violation exception?

VS2005 C++ and MFC.

Under certain abnormal conditions, my application causes an access violation (c0000005), and the program crashes. I have tried inserting

try {

} catch (...) {

}

around the offending code, but this doesn't catch this exception.

Is it possible for the try...catch mechanism to catch this kind of exception?

Thanks,

Jim

[393 byte] By [DrJim] at [2007-12-24]