On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, sam th wrote:
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> Committed updates to signal handlers on Unix.
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> 1) No more global variable. Thanks Bruce.
> 2) POSIX compliance. Thanks Matthew.
> 3) We now handle SIGSEGV, SIGILL, SIGQUIT and SIGBUS
> We don't handle SIGABRT, since that would interfere with us calling it
> ourselves. I figure if people call 'kill -6' on AbiWord, they probably
> aren't concerned about saving the document.
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Sam,
Is it possible to keep the core dumps for debug or some other
build options. I find core dumps an extremely useful means of debugging
code.
> If only people answered my page numbering questions as quickly. :-)
Those questions are much harder and require a detailed knowledge of
abiword. Hacking abiword is like doing a Science discovery experiment. You
start at the edges and gradually work your way into the middle learning
along the way.
Cheers
Martin
