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rn core dump, programmer stupidity

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Tue Sep 8 15:34:46 1992

Date: Tue, 8 Sep 92 15:34:13 -0400
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
To: jfc@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-sipb@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: John Carr's message of Sat, 05 Sep 1992 15:32:03 EDT <9209051932.AA02952@Achates.MIT.EDU>

It's not quite "programmer stupidity," it is failure of the programmer
to anticipate the fact that the RT/PC uses SIGTRAP inside abort(),
rather than SIGILL.

I've fixed the problem and submitted a patch.

Thanks for reporting the bug.

  --> Jonathan Kamens
      IS/Athena Quality Assurance and User Consulting
      Member, Student Information Processing Board (SIPB)
      jik@Athena.MIT.EDU

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