Re: do_ri and EPC adjustment

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On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 03:06:23PM -0700, Kip Walker wrote:

> Sorry if this has already been discussed, but why does do_ri() adjust
> the EPC in compute_return_epc() before delivering the SIGILL to a user
> process?

The original reason was to avoid having knowledge weather to skip over an
instruction or not from the signal return path.  For various reasons this
seems a wrong decission.

  Ralf


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