Re: Determining address which caused SEGV

From: Jamie Lokier (lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Date: Sat Jan 08 2000 - 03:45:18 EST


Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
> Ah. So what is cr2, and where is it documented?

It's the i386 page fault address register. On other processors it has a
different name.

> Is there a reason why the same information should not be copied to the
> si_addr field of the siginfo_t as the documentation says?

Not yet implemented. Someone recently posted a patch which implements
this, and the one-deep siginfo queue for non-real time signals which is
required for it.

-- Jamie

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