Re: SIGBUS -> SIGSEGV

Ingo Weinhold <[email protected]> Sun, 31 Aug 2008 01:13:55 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.os.openbeos.kernel.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2008-08-30 at 15:58:43 [+0200], Salvatore Benedetto <[email protected]> 
wrote:
> 
> while trying to compile tcl within Haiku, the build process
> failed in a switch case on SIGBUS saying that it was already
> defined a few lines above, where actually the case SIGSEGV
> was. So I looked up in the Haiku code and found the following
> 
> #define SIGBUS      SIGSEGV /* for old style code */
> 
> What does exactly old style code means? Is this still needed?

SIGBUS is defined by POSIX, so we'll have to keep it. I'm afraid you'll have 
to "#ifndef __HAIKU__" the SIGBUS case.

CU, Ingo

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