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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
To: fernanbolando@mailc.net, 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] signal.h in APE for newbies
Date: Fri,  4 Jul 2008 11:54:04 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080704155159.C61A41E8C26@holo.morphisms.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1d5d51400807040717xbf9fbf7v7466ae0394b77255@mail.gmail.com>

> Any chance this is some 9vx issue? I tried the test code below it
> worked in 9grid.jp ,but gave the following message in 9vx

You are caught in quite a tangled web.

The hardware gets a floating point trap,
Linux/BSD/OS X turns it into a SIGFPE,
vx32 turns it back into a hardware trap,
Plan 9 turns it into a note,
APE turns it back into a SIGFPE.

Unfortunately for you, vx32 does not do
a very good job turning SIGFPEs into the
correct hardware trap.  Someone needs to
go through the various systems and figure
out what the right mapping is from
info->si_code back to x86 exception code.
When I started to do this, I got very confused
and didn't care enough to muddle through.

Russ



  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-04 15:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-04  8:17 Fernan Bolando
2008-07-04  9:59 ` Charles Forsyth
     [not found] ` <a85d07977219d1010dd930280d4b013e@terzarima.net>
2008-07-04 14:17   ` Fernan Bolando
2008-07-04 15:54     ` Russ Cox [this message]
2008-07-04 17:19     ` Charles Forsyth
2008-07-04 17:21       ` erik quanstrom
2008-07-04 18:04         ` Charles Forsyth
2008-07-04 18:14           ` erik quanstrom
2008-07-04 19:22       ` Russ Cox

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