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From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian@wasabisystems.com>
To: Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>
Cc: Mark Kettenis <kettenis@chello.nl>,
	mec.gnu@mindspring.com, david@streamline-computing.com,
	gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Patch] x % 0 hangs
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 15:06:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3pt7ljb10.fsf@gossamer.airs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40DE0454.1020908@gnu.org>

Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org> writes:

> > The only approach that's somewhat
> > portable is longjmp-ing out of the signal handler, and even that seems
> > to have its problems on some platforms.
> 
> I'm curious, which platforms?

I would think that it would be safe enough to longjmp on SIGFPE into
the gdb catch_errors stack.  You would obviously be in trouble if the
SIGFPE came from any libc stdio routine, but I would expect that to be
impossible with a working library.

Ian


  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-27 15:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-26 15:44 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2004-06-26 22:52 ` Mark Kettenis
2004-06-26 23:19   ` Andrew Cagney
2004-06-27 15:06     ` Ian Lance Taylor [this message]
2004-06-27 17:15       ` Mark Kettenis
2004-06-28 14:25         ` Andrew Cagney
2004-06-29 23:35           ` Mark Kettenis
2004-07-17  2:43             ` Andrew Cagney
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-06-26  9:23 David Lecomber

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