Re: [RFC PATCH] test-c-stack2.sh: skip if the platform sent SIGILL on an invalid address.

[Bruno Haible]

Andrey Savchenko wrote:
> This is not possible. Four generations of hardware are already
> manufactured and they use SIGILL for such cases. It may be fixed in
> future generations if CPU designers will agree to do so

The mapping from hardware exception code to Unix signal number is done in
software, not in hardware. For an example, look in
linux-4.20/arch/sparc/mm/fault_32.c.

Bruno