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From: Thomas Gellekum <thomas@ghpc8.ihf.rwth-aachen.de>
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Subject: Re: faulting memory reference after SIGSEGV?
To: hsu@freefall.cdrom.com (Jeffrey Hsu)
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 1995 08:31:37 +0100 (MET)
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In-Reply-To: <199501301947.LAA08464@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Jeffrey Hsu" at Jan 30, 95 11:47:45 am
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Jeffrey Hsu wrote:
> 
> Let me guess, you're working on the garbage collector for some language.
> Which one?

Just trying to port elk (Extension Language Kit, an embeddable scheme
interpreter).

> Here's an example from Boehm's GC,

Do I _have_ to know him?

>     void GC_write_fault_handler(sig, code, scp, addr)
>     int sig, code;
>     struct sigcontext *scp;
>     char *addr;
> 
> where addr is the faulting virtual address.

Hm.  That's actually already implemented in elk, but failed when I
tried it.  I'll have to look into it a bit deeper.

Thanks.

tg