From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262333AbTJ3KWy (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Oct 2003 05:22:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262344AbTJ3KWy (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Oct 2003 05:22:54 -0500 Received: from spectre.fbab.net ([212.214.165.139]:34960 "HELO mail2.fbab.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262333AbTJ3KWx (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Oct 2003 05:22:53 -0500 Message-ID: <3FA0E677.5030402@fbab.net> Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 11:22:47 +0100 From: "Magnus Naeslund(t)" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031013 Thunderbird/0.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sreeram Kumar Ravinoothala CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Question on SIGFPE References: <94F20261551DC141B6B559DC491086727C8C63@blr-m3-msg.wipro.com> In-Reply-To: <94F20261551DC141B6B559DC491086727C8C63@blr-m3-msg.wipro.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sreeram Kumar Ravinoothala wrote: > Hi, > We get this problem when we run it on disk on chip where linux > 2.4.5 is used. > > Thanks and Regards > Sreeram Since I don't know what your app is doing, it's kind of hard to know whats causing the problem. I still would guess on a divide by zero, maybe because of some timing issue. Use sigaction(2) to trap the signal, and then look at the siginfo_t->si_addr to find out where it happens. Or better yet, just run the program through gdb, it will catch the thing... Magnus