Signal values

Daniel Jacobowitz drow@false.org
Thu Sep 2 15:42:00 GMT 2004


On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 05:22:22PM +0200, Fabian Cenedese wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Is there a uniform declaration of the signals? It seems that gdb is not using
> the same as Linux.
> 
> Linux\include\asm-ppc\signal.h (included from ppc-stub.c from the kgdb
> project which I used as base for my stub):

Recent versions of the kgdb stub should translate the signal numbers
correctly, I remember helping them fix this.

> 
> #define SIGHUP		 1
> #define SIGINT			2
> #define SIGQUIT		 3
> #define SIGILL			4
> #define SIGTRAP		 5
> #define SIGABRT		 6
> #define SIGIOT		 6
> #define SIGBUS		 7
> #define SIGFPE		 8
> #define SIGKILL		 9
> #define SIGUSR1		10
> #define SIGSEGV		11
> #define SIGUSR2		12
> #define SIGPIPE		13
> #define SIGALRM		14
> #define SIGTERM		15

These are Linux/PowerPC signal numbers.

> But when I send a 10 gdb tells me it's a SIGBUS which would go along this
> list from binutils/include/gdb/signals.h:
> 
> enum target_signal
>   {
>     TARGET_SIGNAL_0 = 0,

These are remote protocol signal numbers.  They are target independent.

> And as aside question: which one is the signal that says the target has
> reached a breakpoint?

SIGTRAP.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz



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