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From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
To: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>
Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>,
	Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>,
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Subject: Re: Request for review: getcontext, setcontext, etc
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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?

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