> I would guess that the problem is that on PowerPC, enabling these traps
> requires OS support (in order to set the bits FE0 and FE1 of the MSR
> (= Machine State Register), which can only be done through privileged
> instructions), and Mac OS X 10.4 does not provide that support, or
> we don't know how to use it.
Just found that xnu/osfmk/ppc/status.c contains a function
thread_enable_fpe(), and this function gets called from
xnu/bsd/kern/kern_sig.c when a SIGFPE signal handler is installed
(value != SIG_DFL or SIG_IGN).
Can you try to install this handler for SIGFPE?
static void
my_sigfpe_handler (int sig)
{
signal (SIGFPE, SIG_DFL);
raise (sig);
}
This would be much easier than a Mach exception handler.
Bruno
