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| From | Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.java.programmer |
| Subject | Re: Java puzzler |
| Date | 2011-05-12 22:34 -0400 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <iqi5b8$obd$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | (5 earlier) <-8mdnSRPEIdA21HQnZ2dnUVZ_j2dnZ2d@earthlink.com> <iqhhim$blg$4@speranza.aioe.org> <iqhjks$798$1@dont-email.me> <iqhv2p$at3$1@speranza.aioe.org> <iqhvso$a5a$1@dont-email.me> |
On 5/12/2011 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.
In point of fact, SIGSEGV itself is not hardware-generated by
any machine I know of. You get a hardware detected "page fault" or
"MMU exception" or similar, and then the operating system rummages
about for a while to choose between (1) fetch a page from disk, (2)
allocate some more memory for the stack, (3) generate SIGSEGV, (4) ...
--
Eric Sosman
esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid
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