changiing rtld.c

Aldy Hernandez aldyh@redhat.com
Tue Oct 1 15:59:00 GMT 2002


> The ppc32 kernel (and current ppc64 kernels) does not handle SIGFPE
> correctly which causes a loop if the signal handler touches the FP unit.
> You will need a kernel patch.  Peter Bergner is working on the fix. I will
> talk to him tomorrow.

:-) Lemme give a little more background.

I'm working on patches to glibc so powerpc can be configured entirely
with soft-float (exceptions and everything simulated).  They use the
glibc/soft-float/* functionality, plus some glue code I've written.

So... The SIGFPE is definitely being caused by my hacks, not by the
kernel or the hardware :).

I just want to track down where exactly it got generated.

Aldy



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