Heiko Carstens wrote: > You would have to perform instruction decoding to figure out what was the > exact failing address. Not really a thankful job. This is done in libsigsegv and Boehm GC for m68k, PowerPC, and Alpha processors (see [1][2][3][4]) already. Why not also for s390 and s390x? Or even better, why doesn't the kernel do this job before passing the address to userland? Bruno [1] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=libsigsegv.git;a=blob;f=src/fault-linux-m68k-old.c [2] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=libsigsegv.git;a=blob;f=src/fault-macosdarwin5-powerpc.c [3] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=libsigsegv.git;a=blob;f=src/fault-macosdarwin7-powerpc.c [4] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=libsigsegv.git;a=blob;f=src/fault-netbsd-alpha.c -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-s390" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html