Coming back to life after Segmentation Violation

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Is it possible to restore the normal execution flow of a C program, after the Segmentation Fault error?

struct A {
    int x;
};
A* a = 0;

a->x = 123; // this is where segmentation violation occurs

// after handling the error I want to get back here:
printf("normal execution");
// the rest of my source code....

I want a mechanism similar to NullPointerException that is present in Java, C# etc.

Note: Please, don't tell me that there is an exception handling mechanism in C++ because I know that, dont' tell me I should check every pointer before assignment etc.

What I really want to achieve is to get back to normal execution flow as in the example above. I know some actions can be undertaken using POSIX signals. How should it look like? Other ideas?

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