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Re: [PATCH][4.3] Deprecate -ftrapv
- From: rridge at csclub dot uwaterloo dot ca (Ross Ridge)
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2008 17:28:45 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: [PATCH][4.3] Deprecate -ftrapv
Robert Dewar writes:
>Yes, and that is what we would want for Ada, so I am puzzled by your
>sigh. All Ada needs to do is to issue a constraint_error exception,
>it does not need to know where the exception came from or why except
>in very broad detail.
Unless printing "This application has requested the Runtime to terminate
it in an unusual way." counts an issuing a contraint_error in Ada,
it seems to me that -ftrapv and Ada have differing requirements.
How can you portabilty and correctly generate a constraint_error if
the code generated by -ftrapv calls the C runtime function abort()?
On Unix-like systems you can catch SIGABRT, but even there how do you
tell that it didn't come from CTRL-\, a signal sent from a different
process, or abort() called fom some other context? With INTO I don't
see any way distignuish the SIGSEGV it generates on Linux from any of
the myriad other ways a SIGSEGV can be generated.
Ross Ridge