Re: Change to allow signal handlers to set SE and BE bits.

On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 21:19, Corey Minyard wrote:

Paul came up with a much better method for this.  I have added a syscall
that does a "debug" return from the signal handler.  It's much cleaner.

I ahve a patch for this, and I've done a number of things besides just
this.  I seemed bad to me to add yet another kludge to the beginning of
DoSyscall for handling yet another signal return value.  So I turned all
the signal return syscalls into normal syscalls.  This should speed up
normal syscall handling by removing four instructions from the syscall
entry.  Is this ok?

The problem with changing the signal return is that you break at least
gdb, and maybe more (g++ stack unwinding ?)

Ben.


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