Andy Gaynor <silver@mail.webspan.net> wrote:
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| Um, that wasn't really the issue. I was quoting commentary in config/system
| with "the address of the faulting memory reference", which likely wants to
| know this information for its generational garbage collector.
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Oh, o.k. That's talking about the undocumented args to the SIGSEGV signal
handler, and how to parse them to find the address. Look at the comment
block just before the "mprotect" & "sigsegv_addr" settings in the various
prototype system files in "config/".
But you only need that if you're going to use the generational collector,
which requires that the O/S support "mprotect()". And from looking at the
"i486-linux-gcc" system file [and rummanging around with "man" & "apropos"
on a local Linux system] it looks like maybe Linux doesn't support that
anyway, so don't worry about it and just use the stop-and-copy collector.
-Rob
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