Re: 'make test' error

[Eric Blake]

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According to Bruno Haible on 12/6/2008 7:02 AM:
> I have access to a MacOS X 10.5 machine. What happens in this test is that the
> test program installs a SIGSEGV handler but then dies from a SIGBUS:

Thanks for the research and gnulib patch.  However, m4 1.4.12
unconditionally installs a SIGBUS handler on platforms where SIGBUS is
defined (C99 does not require SIGBUS, and mingw does not provide it), in
order to print a nicer failure message rather than dump core.  When
libsigsegv is not in use, either I will have to modify m4 to also honor
FAULT_YIELDS_SIGBUS and only install SIGBUS on platforms where c-stack is
not already handling it, or we should consider making c-stack _always_
install a SIGBUS handler, even on platforms where stack overflow does not
throw SIGBUS, and I modify m4 to not wipe out the c-stack handler by
installing its own.  In other words, it seems like we should consider
modifying the contract of c-stack to state that the application should not
modify SIGBUS handlers.

On looking at libsigsegv, it looks like it also conditionally installs a
SIGBUS handler.  Which means we found a bug in m4 1.4.12: if you are using
libsigsegv, and on a platform like MacOS, then my installation of a SIGBUS
handler overwrites the libsigsegv handler, and you lose out on stack
overflow detection.  Also, if we modify the c-stack contract to always
take care of SIGBUS, is there a way to make it detect whether libsigsegv
installed a SIBGUS handler?

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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