Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 09:56:51 +0200 From: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, cracauer@cons.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Floating Point Exceptions, signal handlers & subsequent ops Message-ID: <19980907095651.A24204@cons.org> In-Reply-To: <199809070513.PAA26505@godzilla.zeta.org.au>; from Bruce Evans on Mon, Sep 07, 1998 at 03:13:07PM %2B1000 References: <199809070513.PAA26505@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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In <199809070513.PAA26505@godzilla.zeta.org.au>, Bruce Evans wrote: > >I could also imagine extending struct sigcontext with fields for > >control and status word so that the user can get the unmodified status > >if the one-bit trap code isn't sufficient (either because multiple > >bits may have been set or if the FPE_...... values aren't precise > >enough, for example if the user needs to tell under- from overflow). > > This can wait until we implement SA_SIGINFO (post-3.0). Will we give up the old signal handler calls or still send the old arguments to handlers not registered with SA_SIGINFO? Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> http://www.cons.org/cracauer Tel.: (private) +4940 5221829 Fax.: (private) +4940 5228536 Paper: (private) Waldstrasse 200, 22846 Norderstedt, Germany To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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