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Re: port-i386/43655 (integer division by zero delivers SIGFPE with wrong siginfo code on i386)



The following reply was made to PR port-i386/43655; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)
To: Taylor R Campbell <campbell+netbsd%mumble.net@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, port-i386-maintainer%netbsd.org@localhost, 
        gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: port-i386/43655 (integer division by zero delivers SIGFPE with 
wrong siginfo code on i386)
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 22:15:31 -0400

 On Jul 26,  1:37am, campbell+netbsd%mumble.net@localhost (Taylor R Campbell) 
wrote:
 -- Subject: Re: port-i386/43655 (integer division by zero delivers SIGFPE wit
 
 | Thanks.  While you're at it, perhaps you could address the curious
 | situation of `floating poing operations' in the siginfo(2) man page.
 | I don't know what a poing is, but I'd be happier knowing there aren't
 | any floating around me, especially not when they're invalid.
 
 Well, it means usually invalid operand to the floating operation requested.
 I don't really want to rename it, or make it more specific, what would you
 like to see instead?
 
 christos
 
 PS: I will fix amd64 soon, I have the code written but not tested/committed.
 


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