Re: Portability testers, please: getting the stack base

[Michael Livshin]

address@hidden (Marcus G. Daniels) writes:

> MD> Program received signal SIGBUS, Bus error.
> MD> 0x29f2a05a in GC_find_limit (p=0xbfbfeb10 "", up=1) at 
> /src/subversions/guile-core/libguile/gc_os_dep.c:1751
> 
> ML> does the program crash outside of gdb?
> 
> ML> if not, then ignore this signal -- it's a feature.
> 
> When run outside of gdb I get this:
> 
> Fatal error 'longjmp()ing between thread contexts is undefined by POSIX 
> 1003.1' at line ? in file /usr/src/lib/libc_r/uthread/uthread_jmp.c (errno = 
> ?)

oops.  new FreeBSD + elf + OS threads.  I'm willing to bet that
Boehm's code is simply untested in this configuration...

I wonder about the complaint about longjmp() though: by looking at the 
code I see that it's called by the signal handler.  does FreeBSD run
signal handlers in their own thread context?  I thought longjmp()ing
from signal handlers was supported everywhere?  strange...

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