SIGFPE -> ArithmeticException ?

Andrew Haley aph@pasanda.cygnus.co.uk
Wed Jun 30 01:37:00 GMT 1999


> Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 19:45:05 -0700
> From: Anthony Green <green@cygnus.com>
> 
> Andrew -
> 
>        I just spoke with rth about this:
> 
> > 1999-06-25  Andrew Haley  <aph@cygnus.com>
> > 
> >         * include/i386-signal.h: Rewritten to use SystemV style ucontext
> >         signal handlers where possible.
> 
> It turns out that the signature for handlers in the old scheme is really:
> 
>    static void my_handler (int sig, struct sigcontext_struct ctx);
> 
> and not
> 
>    static void my_handler (int sig);
> 
> This is not what the manpage says - but that's linux for you :-) This
> _should_ work with all versions of the kernel, although he recommends
> using the new scheme on systems that support it.

Well, that's more-or-less what I was doing.  However, I'll try the
small change.  Oddly, Bryce is getting a SEGV with the new handler.
Weirder and weirder...

Andrew.


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