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authorCorinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>2008-02-27 17:57:14 +0000
committerCorinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>2008-02-27 17:57:14 +0000
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* cygtls.cc (_cygtls::init_exception_handler): Fix comment.
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diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/cygtls.cc b/winsup/cygwin/cygtls.cc
index 310f2e637..6b7e0cd51 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/cygtls.cc
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/cygtls.cc
@@ -269,13 +269,8 @@ _cygtls::init_exception_handler (exception_handler *eh)
At one point this was a loop (el.prev = &el;). This outsmarted the
above behaviour. Unfortunately this trick doesn't work anymore with
Windows 2008, which irremediably gets into an endless loop, taking 100%
- CPU. That's why we reverted to a normal SEH chain.
-
- On the bright side, Windows' behaviour is covered by POSIX:
-
- "If and when the function returns, if the value of sig was SIGFPE,
- SIGILL, or SIGSEGV or any other implementation-defined value
- corresponding to a computational exception, the behavior is undefined." */
+ CPU. That's why we reverted to a normal SEH chain and changed the way
+ the exception handler returns to the application. */
el.prev = _except_list;
_except_list = &el;
}