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Re: Java puzzler

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On 5/12/2011 6:22 PM, Nancy 3 wrote:
> On 12/05/2011 9:01 PM, markspace wrote:
>> On 5/12/2011 5:47 PM, Nancy 3 wrote:
>>
>>> I'm sorry. I assumed you wanted an ArithmeticException or some other
>>> Java exception on overflow, rather than an application fault ala SIGSEGV
>>> that brings down the whole JVM. :)
>>
>> SIGSEGV can be trapped and redirected to the JVM to handle. It's a
>> hardware thing, not limited by any given implementation, *nix or
>> otherwise.
>
> Yes, but by then the stack has unrolled to wherever the handler is. The
> thread, at least, can't easily be restored to its previous state.

Last time I looked at signal handling, unrolling would only happen if
the signal handler did a long jump to a prior frame in the stack.

Patricia

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  Re: Java puzzler Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-05-11 05:24 -0700
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