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From: Giuliano Pochini <pochini@shiny.it>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: RE: floating-point under ppc/linux
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 12:38:00 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <XFMail.20011030123800.pochini@shiny.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15326.8355.242681.874353@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>


> 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.


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-10-30 11:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-30  3:38 floating-point under ppc/linux Paul Mackerras
2001-10-30 10:42 ` Gary Byers
2001-10-30 14:50   ` Holger Bettag
2001-10-30 18:03     ` Gabriel Paubert
2001-10-30 10:49 ` Franz Sirl
2001-10-30 11:38 ` Giuliano Pochini [this message]
2001-10-30 17:59 ` Gabriel Paubert
2001-11-15  5:37   ` Paul Mackerras
2001-11-15 11:30     ` Gabriel Paubert
2001-11-15 12:09       ` Paul Mackerras
2001-11-15 13:00         ` Gabriel Paubert
2001-11-01 11:55 ` Serial Port 0 IRQ0 Walnut question Ralph Blach
2001-11-01 12:12   ` David Müller (ELSOFT AG)

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