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- From: pk@cs.few.eur.nl (Paul Kranenburg)
- Subject: Re: Program dies with FP Exception
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.151555.12300@cs.few.eur.nl>
- Sender: news@cs.few.eur.nl
- Reply-To: pk@cs.eur.nl
- Organization: Erasmus University Rotterdam
- References: <STARK.92Sep13002650@sbstark.cs.sunysb.edu> <1992Sep13.083846.6134@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 15:15:55 GMT
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- In <1992Sep13.083846.6134@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:
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- >In article <STARK.92Sep13002650@sbstark.cs.sunysb.edu> stark@cs.sunysb.edu (Gene Stark) writes:
- >>Here's a tough one I've been trying to track down -- maybe somebody out there
- >>who knows more can guess what is going on.
- >>
- [...]
- >First of all, like all other signals, the SIGFPE gets delivered to a process
- >as a result of the sigtrampoline code. The *only* way you get a signal is
- >on return from a system call. The problem is that there appears to be no
-
- .. or you get your signal immediately, provided you have a handler set, or
- you get it on return from the interrupt (trap), provided the AST (Async.
- System Trap) stuff is implemented which is then invoked from `signotify()'.
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- -pk
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