tech-kern: Fault address in signal handler

Subject: Fault address in signal handler
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Robert Swindells <rjs@fdy2.demon.co.uk>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/19/2002 22:30:24

Is there a good reason why the i386 port couldn't provide the faulting
address in the upper bits of the 'code' argument of a signal handler ?

Several other ports do this when delivering SIGBUS or SIGSEGV, and it
makes implementing complex language systems such as Lisp or Java much
easier.

Robert Swindells