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Re: CVS commit: src/regress/lib/libc/siginfo/sigfpe



In article <20090218155051.GD29236%britannica.bec.de@localhost>,
Joerg Sonnenberger  <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> wrote:
>On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 10:16:38AM -0500, Christos Zoulas wrote:
>> Do we advance to the next instruction so returning from a signal handler
>> can proceed?
>
>This would make it impossible to correctly rerun the instruction if that
>is intended. At least on CISC platforms with variable opcode lengths you
>can't easily step back.

This is why I want to provide SA_NOADVANCE. I am not sure if that should
be the default though.

christos



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