> >
> > > SIGEMT me thinks is a BSD thing, I have to provide it for SunOS
> > > compatibility if that means anything... And whats even more strange
> > > is that the NetBSD Sparc code sends this signal to a process if it
> > > gets a tagged addition overflow trap ??!?!?! Possibly Ultrix or IRIX
> > > or some other MIPS based Unix has this? As another point of reference
> > > my Sparc gdb stub happens to use SIGEMT for fp disabled traps so it
> > > seems as if SIGEMT is another one of the MAGIC Unix things ;)
> >
Actually, that seems perfectly OK. SIGEMT is "emulation trap", that is,
something needs to be emulated. In this case, the FPU :-)
Interestingly Linux doesn't have SIGEMT, although there is a FPU emulator
in the 386 kernel. Never took a look at it, so I don't know how that works.
Cheers,
Andy
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