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Date:      Fri, 11 Jan 2002 13:25:14 -0700
From:      Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
Cc:        Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>, 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:  <15423.18986.412590.932780@caddis.yogotech.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020111122109.J7984@elvis.mu.org>
References:  <20020112054041.J3330-100000@gamplex.bde.org> <3C3F455B.86856045@mindspring.com> <15423.17965.472722.218250@caddis.yogotech.com> <20020111122109.J7984@elvis.mu.org>

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> > > 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?

I don't know what Bruce is saying anymore.  I do know that a DIVBYZERO
exception is no longer generated (by default).  Whether or not it can be
correctly generated/caught is another story.



Nate

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