Does any onw know if newer editions of MSVS libraries handle more than these few signals?
Dan Lydick > [Original Message] > From: Enrico Migliore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <harmony-dev@incubator.apache.org> > Date: 4/7/06 12:13:16 AM > Subject: Re: Starting my next round on BootJVM > > Hi > > >>As far as I can say, the main problem of porting a JVM, designed for > >>UNIX, to the Windows environment are the ANSI signals: > >>Windows, in fact, doesn't honor not even a fourth of all ANSI signals, > >>therefore, the JVM signals handler WILL NOT be called by Windows. > >> > >> > >> > >I am not an MSVS expert, but my previous MS C/C++ work has had > >no problem using the signal library, which was in any case borrowed > >from Unix, so I don't think this will be a problem. The only signal I > >really need is SIGALRM for the time slicer. > > > > > > > If nothing changed since MSVC 6.0 (1999), the signals available in > Windows are: > > SIGABRT,SIGFPE,SIGILL,SIGINT,SIGSEGV,SIGTERM > > Yet: > > "The SIGILL, SIGSEGV, and SIGTERM signals are not generated under > Windows NT. They are included for ANSI compatibility" > > >>I don't know yet if and how Cygwin deals with this kind of problem... > >> > >> > >> > >Those who have compiled it had misc. header files to adjust, but > >nobody has so far complained about signals. > > > >Thanks, > > > >Dan Lydick > > > >.... snip ... --------------------------------------------------------------------- Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
