Re: [patch] linux: Report the faulting FPU instruction

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On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Ralf Baechle wrote:

> The problem you found in the FPU emulator is a fairly generic one.  We
> got other exception handlers which in error case will still skip over
> the instruction.  What also isn't handled properly is the case of sending
> a signal to the application.  In such a case sigreturn() should do the
> the compute_return_epc() thing ...

 Well, with break/trap 6/7 I have already noticed exception handlers tend
to call compute_return_epc() unnecessarily.  I shall be cleaning the code
gradually as time passes by...

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