On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Kevin D. Kissell wrote:
> dump core, so the user never executes again. But *if*
> the user has registered a handler for SIGFPE, and one
> of the IEEE exceptions occurs, I don't see where the
> associated Cause bit is being cleared, and I would think
> that the consequence would be that the process would
> get into an endless loop of trapping, posting the signal,
> restoring the FCSR from the context with the bits set,
> and trapping again, whether or not the PC is modified
> to avoid re-executing the faulting instruction.
Obviously user code is responsible to clear the bit it acted upon in the
saved context.
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