On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, David Daney wrote:My kernel sources are from linux-mips.org, it is little-endian running on:
It appears that gcc configured for mipsel-linux will execute a "break 7" instruction on integer division by zero.
This causes the kernel (I am using 2.4.25) to send SIGTRAP.
It looks like you have a problem in your configuration. A "break 7" (or "teq <divisor>,$zero,7" -- but that's currently implemented in gas
only) is indeed emitted and exectuted in the case of division by zero, but
Linux has the ability to recognize this special break code and sends
SIGFPE instead. There are actually two special codes defined, the other
being "6" for an overflow. Both are handled by Linux, with si_code in
struct siginfo being set to FPE_INTDIV or FPE_INTOVF, respectively. You
can handle this appropriately in a signal handler.
# cat /proc/cpuinfo system type : ATI-Xilleon processor : 0 cpu model : MIPS 4Kc V0.7 BogoMIPS : 299.00 wait instruction : yes microsecond timers : yes tlb_entries : 16 extra interrupt vector : yes hardware watchpoint : yes VCED exceptions : not available VCEI exceptions : not available
Could you point me to where in the kernel source this is handled? I will try to see what when wrong.
David Daney.
