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[PATCH 1/3] signal.7: Better description for SIGFPE


From: Alejandro Colomar
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] signal.7: Better description for SIGFPE
Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2024 00:10:27 +0100

From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>

SIGFPE has comment "Floating-point exception", which corresponds to
the FPE acronym.  But this is misleading as this signal may also be
generated by an integer division by 0.

Change it to "Erroneous arithmetic operation" from POSIX.
Note: the GNU C Library manual says "fatal arithmetic error".

Link: <https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/basedefs/signal.h.html>
Link: 
<https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Program-Error-Signals.html>
Signed-off-by: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
---
 man/man7/signal.7 | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/man/man7/signal.7 b/man/man7/signal.7
index 7a9e91cc7..d19f171b3 100644
--- a/man/man7/signal.7
+++ b/man/man7/signal.7
@@ -373,7 +373,7 @@ .SS Standard signals
 SIGCLD \-      Ign     A synonym for \fBSIGCHLD\fP
 SIGCONT        P1990   Cont    Continue if stopped
 SIGEMT \-      Term    Emulator trap
-SIGFPE P1990   Core    Floating-point exception
+SIGFPE P1990   Core    Erroneous arithmetic operation
 SIGHUP P1990   Term    Hangup detected on controlling terminal
                        or death of controlling process
 SIGILL P1990   Core    Illegal Instruction
-- 
2.39.5

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