divdi3: incomplete fix in db3d848e154b?
Zack Weinberg
zackw@panix.com
Sun May 14 13:22:00 GMT 2017
On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 2:22 AM, Alexey Neyman <stilor@att.net> wrote:
>
> divdi3.c:
> 90 if (d0 == 0)
> 91 d0 = 1 / d0; /* Divide intentionally by zero. */
>
> Isn't the purpose of this intentional division to generate a SIGFPE, rather
> than SIGILL?
>
> Shouldn't divdi3.c do something else here, e.g. raise(SIGFPE) or be compiled
> with -fno-sanitize=integer-divide-by-zero?
Yes, I think you're right.
We should try to get an actual hardware division by zero if we can;
raise(SIGFPE) will not fill in the siginfo structure exactly the same
way. It might be the best we can do sometimes, though.
zw
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