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KHB: Failure-oblivious computing

KHB: Failure-oblivious computing

Posted Jun 29, 2006 21:34 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: KHB: Failure-oblivious computing by cventers
Parent article: KHB: Failure-oblivious computing

Throwing from certain signal handlers is safe in the presence of -fasynchronous-unwind-tables, but I sort of doubt that SIGSEGV is necessarily one of them (what if, e.g., the unwinder segfaults, something which is not unknown?)

Joe Buck would know for sure, I'd guess. :)


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