Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 12:21:09 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> To: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, Daniel Eischen <eischen@pcnet1.pcnet.com>, Dan Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Request for review: getcontext, setcontext, etc Message-ID: <20020111122109.J7984@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <15423.17965.472722.218250@caddis.yogotech.com>; from nate@yogotech.com on Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 01:08:13PM -0700 References: <20020112054041.J3330-100000@gamplex.bde.org> <3C3F455B.86856045@mindspring.com> <15423.17965.472722.218250@caddis.yogotech.com>
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* Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> [020111 12:08] wrote: > > > If you think about it a little, since you can't guarantee delivery > > of signals to particular threads anyway, it makes sense that SIGFPE > > would not be useful under any circumstances in threaded programs, > > no matter how you sliced it. > > What Bruce is saying is that it's not possible to deliver the signal *AT > ALL*, let alone in threaded programs. However, he contradicts his own > statements in later parts of the same email, hence the confusion. Shouldn't you be able to catch divide by zero? Or am I missing something here? -- -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' Tax deductable donations for FreeBSD: http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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