Re: Profiling Octave

[Russell Standish]

Presumably SIG_DFL? After all, programs that do not explicitly provide
a signal handler get profiled correctly. 

                                        Cheers

On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 09:29:18PM -0500, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 25-Mar-2004, JD Cole <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> |     Check the capitals on the text which Clinton provides and the case 
> | of the text coming from within octave: one is lower, the other upper. So 
> | that's probably not the source of the message.
> 
> Right, but the code that Przemek quoted is just there as a backup in
> case the sys_siglist global variable isn't defined.  So the idea is
> the same, that Octave has received a SIGPROF signal.  Currently there
> is a handler installed for that if SIGPROF is defined, and it just
> aborts with a panic message.  Perhaps that is not the right action?
> If it is not, then what is the correct thing to do?
> 
> jwe

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