Re: Dealing with illegal instruction
In article <87r6dc9w7c.fsf@kvetch.smov.org>,
Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> accidentally responded to known "troll"
Antoninus T, thusly:
>Antoninus Twink <nospam@nospam.invalid> writes:
>[...]
>> If you just want to catch illegal instructions, then you can use the C
>> signal function to install a handler for SIGILL (which has numerical
>> value 4).
>
>There is no reason to assume that SIGILL is 4, no benefit in doing so
>(the macro exists precisely so you don't have to assume a particular
>value), and no guarantee that the system will raise the signal under
>any circumstances other than an explicit call to raise().
Does this mean that Keith really doesn't have A.T. kf'd, after all?
Or has his notoriously well kept killfile sprung a leak?
P.S. It looks like Roberson has slipped as well.
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