Delphi freezing instead of throwing Access violation exception

Question

I'm facing an issue where instead of Dephi 11 generate Access violation when it should, it's freezing with high CPU usage and the only thing i can do is to force close the app process.

To simulate this issue i can use this code :

var test : array[1..2] of tstringlist;
begin
showmessage(test[2].Text);
end;

Of course i know this is a bugged code and it should thrown an Access violation as test[2] does not exists. But what happens is a freeze and here is what task manager shows : Delphi's process hangs on 100% of one core cpu.

Why this happens ? Is it a Delphi bug ?

Answer 1

I could find out what is happening. On 'Native OS Exceptions', i don't know why, the Access violation was configured like this :

Once i change like the below image, the issue is fixed.