Jussi Pakkanen wrote:
On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 3:13 PM, René Rebe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

the attached patch allows compiling cuneiform on non-x86 platforms,
however PUMA_Init fails, AFAICS reading some data file and probably some
sanity checks failing due missing portable data file reads (such as
endianess swaps).

Does someone know enough DOS/Windows programming to know why they are
calling the interrupt? Does it have some special side-effects? Could
we just get rid of it altogether and just use abort() everywhere?
Yes, we can.

http://blogs.msdn.com/kangsu/archive/2005/09/07/462232.aspx

int 3 was a just signal for debugger. This allows the calling thread to signal the debugger to handle the exception.
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