Re: SIGFPE -> ArithmeticException ?

[Andrew Haley <aph@pasanda.cygnus.co.uk>]

> Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 02:54:21 +1200
> From: Bryce McKinlay <bryce@albatross.co.nz>

3 o'clock in the morning?  Trouble sleeping?  :-)

> Andrew Haley wrote:
> 
> > I don't think that there's any reason why the pthread library needs to
> > be called when a SIGFPE occurs (as far as I know SIGFPE is
> > synchronous) so try replacing calls to sigaction() in i386-signal.h
> > with __sigaction().  This isn't an ideal solution, but it should work
> > until pthreads is fixed.
> >
> > Here's hoping!
> 
> Yes! It works! (Using the original i386-signal.h and making this small
> change) Thanks!

Hallelujah!

Thank *you*.  Really.  Without your help I wouldn't have been able to
get this fixed, and we have an important release in the pipeline.
This is a good example of how it pays us to work with the community.

> Now with that sorted out, can anyone tell me why the following one still
> doesn't work? In this example, a SIGSEGV is never even generated:

Ug.  Weird.  I'll try to duplicate the problem.

Andrew.