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Subject: Re: Saving to 32 bits of GPRs in signal context
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On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 15:04 +0200, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> 
> Just call them and trap the SEGV ;-)  You can check the
> aux vector of course, or ask glibc -- but the SEGV way
> is the only really portable way.  Strange world :-)

SIGILL you mean ? :-)

Ben.