crash in config.guess on Power Mac G5 under Mac OS X 10.4.6
Vincent Lefevre
vincent at vinc17.org
Fri May 19 15:30:30 CEST 2006
On 2006-05-19 14:00:09 +0200, Torbjorn Granlund wrote:
> > You asked to have popup window for every Unix signal, and you get
> > what you ask for.
>
> Not for every signal (SIGQUIT isn't even concerned), only those that
> are generally caused by a crash. But a crash is a bug.
>
> Perhaps so, but a signal is not a crash.
Agreed, but an abrupt termination due to segmentation fault,
a bus error or a bad asm instruction is a crash... unless
the signal is trapped to handle the problem in a clean way.
Wouldn't this be a nice fix?
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