Hi all,
First, I'm not subscribed to the list so I'd appreciate being cc'd on
any replies.
We have a project getting started with MIPS, and one of the things that
we're trying to bring in is some exception-handling code that logs
various information about the ways that apps fail.
In particular, the guys working on this have asked for the STATUS,
CAUSE, BADVADDR, and FPC_EIR registers to be made available as part of
struct sigcontext so that they can determine exactly why the app is failing.
Looking at include/asm-mips/sigcontext.h I can see that these registers
appear to be in the struct, but are either marked as "unused" or now
have different names.
Am I correct that these registers are not currently exported to
userspace on a fault? If this is the case, why not? Does anyone have a
patch to enable this export?
It seems odd that mips app designers wouldn't want this information to
be made available.
Any information you can provide would be useful.
Chris
