RE: floating-point under ppc/linux
From: Giuliano Pochini <hidden>
Date: 2001-10-30 11:38:00
From: Giuliano Pochini <hidden>
Date: 2001-10-30 11:38:00
In other words, if a program blocks SIGFPE, does something that generates a floating-point exception, then clears the exception status in FPSCR, then unblocks SIGFPE, should it get a SIGFPE signal delivered to it at that point ?
AFAIK posix says that blocked signals have to be queued (at least one of them) and that signals have to be delivered when those signals are unblocked. I don't know if it makes sense about hardware signals, but that's the spec. I agree with the signal modes you proposed, but you should also allow the user to set the 11 mode in some way. Debuggers could need that. Bye. ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/