Re: Signal 8

[Eugene Teo <eugene.teo@eugeneteo.net>]

Ok, answering to myself:

Floating point error, triggers coprocessor_error()(**) with signal
8/SIGFPE

:)   

Eugene

<quote who="Eugene Teo">
u> Just to confirm, FPE, floating point or fixed point?
u> 
u> <quote who="Seth Arnold">
u> u> On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 04:52:00PM -0500, Raghu R. Arur wrote:
u> u> >    i really dont know what this signal is for.
u> u> 
u> u> kill -l
u> u> 
u> u> 8 is SIGFPE on my system -- floating point exception.
u> u> 
u> u> For the original poster -- don't use floating point in the kernel. If
u> u> you do, you need to modify the context switch code to properly handle
u> u> the floating point registers.
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