gripes about error reporting
John Owens
jso at edison.UUCP
Wed May 14 23:42:18 AEST 1986
> When was the last time
> you got an "IOT trap - core dumped" on, say, your NCR machine? I got one
> on my Gould PN9000 recently, and I still haven't figured out where it came
> from.
It's rather obscure, but the abort() library function causes a process
to send a SIGIOT to itself.... I believe this was chosen because it
was very rare to get an IOT in a normal user-mode process; you almost
had to be writing in assembler.
John Owens @ General Electric Company (+1 804 978 5726)
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