Re: 2.2.17pre15 and SA_SIGINFO

From: Malcolm Beattie (mbeattie@sable.ox.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Aug 02 2000 - 05:01:31 EST


Miquel van Smoorenburg writes:
> In article >3987CA65.B4BDBCD2@transmeta.com>,
> H. Peter Anvin <hpa@transmeta.com> wrote:
> >I have a program which relies on being able to derive the address of
> >a SIGSEGV. To do that, I use the SA_SIGINFO option to sigaction() and
[...]
> Well, I can't help you with that, but I know of an alternative for
> i386 at least:
>
> #include <signal.h>
>
> void segv_handler(int sig, struct sigcontext ctx)
> {
> void *addr = (void *)ctx.eip;

eip gives the instruction pointer. It's cr2 that gives the address
of the page fault.

--Malcolm

-- 
Malcolm Beattie <mbeattie@sable.ox.ac.uk>
Unix Systems Programmer
Oxford University Computing Services

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