Re: abort instruction for Mips?

[Dominic Sweetman <dom@algor.co.uk>]

Andreas Jaeger (aj@suse.de) writes:

> For glibc I could use [1] an abort instruction as fail safe to abort a
> program.  Is there any way to achieve this?

Unless someone comes up with some Linux-recommended prior art, 

  break 255

should work.  It's a breakpoint for the debugger, but it's
probably a good thing that a debugger should catch an abort.  An
astute debugger may look at the code value and complain further.

Dominic Sweetman
dom@algor.co.uk