POSIX.4 describes the prototype for a signal handler as:
void foo(int signo, siginfo_t *extra, void *ignored);
The only reference in signal.h is to a handler that accepts only a
single argument (signo).
Are these additional parameters supported in QNX 4.25/Watcom 10.6?
Scott Escott <escotts@info-methods.com> wrote:
: POSIX.4 describes the prototype for a signal handler as:
: void foo(int signo, siginfo_t *extra, void *ignored);
: The only reference in signal.h is to a handler that accepts only a
: single argument (signo).
: Are these additional parameters supported in QNX 4.25/Watcom 10.6?
If you override the handler description with a protoype of:
void handler(int signo, SIGCONTEXT *sc);
SIGCONTEXT is defined in <sys/sigcontext.h>
you now have access to interesting things like all the register’s at the
time the signal occured. This is how the default segv handler is able
to print out the address that the signal occured at.
Not quite qhat you asked for, but interesting none the less. 
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Scott Escott <escotts@info-methods.com> wrote:
POSIX.4 describes the prototype for a signal handler as:
void foo(int signo, siginfo_t *extra, void *ignored);
The only reference in signal.h is to a handler that accepts only a
single argument (signo).Are these additional parameters supported in QNX 4.25/Watcom 10.6?
Yes…
From an old post by Steve McPolin:
: From steve@qnx.com Tue Sep 16 15:58:01 EDT 1997
: Article: 6374 of comp.os.qnx
: Path: gateway.qnx.com!not-for-mail
: From: steve@qnx.com (Steve McPolin)
: Newsgroups: comp.os.qnx
: Subject: Re: Getting signal context
: Date: 6 Aug 1997 15:01:08 GMT
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:
: In article <u4zpqvn1jj.fsf@stlind.lint.lyngso-industri.dk.lyngso-industri.dk>,
: Jeppe Sommer <jso@stlind.lint.lyngso-industri.dk.lyngso-industri.dk> wrote:
: >
: >Is there a way of getting the signal context from within a signal
: >handler in QNX (i.e., the state of the CPU just before the signal is
: >delivered)?.
: >
: >On other (Unix like) systems this is typically available as an extra
: >argument to the signal handler.
: >
: >Looking at the signal handlers stack from within the Watcom debugger,
: >it seems that most of the CPU registers are in fact placed further
: >down the stack (I am compiling with stack calling conventions).
: >Unfortunatly these do not seem to be at a fixed distance to the
: >stack top.
: >
: >Does anyone have a clue about how this could be done? I am primarily
: >interested in the instruction pointer register.
:
: The structure below defines it, it is available as the second argument
: but the compiler is AR about calling signal with a function which
: doesn’t match 'void ()(int)’ – you can cast it away to void .
:
: example:
: #include <signal.h>
: #include <sys/sigcontext.h> / follows if you don’t have it in your system /
:
: void catch(int signo, SIGCONTEXT scp)
: {
: printf(“death by signal %u at 0x%lx\n”, signo, scp->sc_ip);
: exit(1);
: }
:
:
: The fields:
: ulong_t sc_info; / fault specific info /
: ushort_t sc_errc; / error code pushed by processor /
: uchar_t sc_fault; / actual fault # /
: uchar_t sc_flags; / signal handler flags: /
: are only available in 424 and above, as is the sigaltstack() et al…
:
:
: #ifndef sigcont_h
: #define sigcont_h 1
:
:
: #ifndef __TYPES_H_INCLUDED
: #include <sys/types.h>
: #endif
:
: typedef struct _sigcontext SIGCONTEXT;
: struct _sigcontext {
: ulong_t sc_mask;
: ulong_t sc_gs:16,:16; / register set at fault time /
: ulong_t sc_fs:16,:16;
: ulong_t sc_es:16,:16;
: ulong_t sc_ds:16,:16;
: ulong_t sc_di;
: ulong_t sc_si;
: ulong_t sc_bp;
: ulong_t :32; / hole from pushad /
: ulong_t sc_bx;
: ulong_t sc_dx;
: ulong_t sc_cx;
: ulong_t sc_ax;
: ulong_t sc_ip;
: ulong_t sc_cs:16, :16;
: ulong_t sc_fl;
: ulong_t sc_sp;
: ulong_t sc_ss:16, :16;
: ulong_t sc_info; / fault specific info /
: ushort_t sc_errc; / error code pushed by processor /
: uchar_t sc_fault; / actual fault # /
: uchar_t sc_flags; / signal handler flags: /
: #define SC_ONSTACK 1
: };
:
: enum {
: TRAP_ZDIV = 0, / SIGFPE: divide by zero /
: TRAP_DEBUG = 1, / SIGTRAP: debug fault /
: TRAP_NMI = 2, / SGIBUS: nmi fault /
: TRAP_BRKPT = 3, / SIGTRAP: cpu breakpoint /
: TRAP_OFLOW = 4, / SIGFPE: integer overflow/
: TRAP_BOUNDS = 5, / SIGFPE: bound instn failed*/
: TRAP_BADOP = 6, /* SIGILL: invalid opcode /
: TRAP_NONDP = 7, / SIGFPE: NDP not present or available /
: TRAP_DFAULT = 8, / never: double fault (system error) /
: TRAP_NDPSEGV = 9, / SIGSEGV: NDP invalid address /
: TRAP_BADTSS = 10, / never: invalid tss (system error) /
: TRAP_NOTPRESENT=11, / SIGSEGV: referenced segment not preset /
: TRAP_NOSTACK = 12, / SIGSEGV: esp|ebp bad address /
: TRAP_GPF = 13, / SIGSEGV: other /
: TRAP_PAGE = 14, / SIGSEGV: page fault /
: TRAP_FPERROR = 16, / SIGFPE: floating point error */
: };
:
: #define __ERRC_VALID (1<<TRAP_DFAULT | 1<<TRAP_BADTSS |
: 1<<TRAP_NOTPRESENT | 1<<TRAP_NOSTACK | 1<<TRAP_GPF | 1<<TRAP_PAGE )
:
: #define __INFO_VALID (1<<TRAP_PAGE)
:
:
: #endif
: –
: Steve McPolin, QNX Software Systems, Ltd.
Thanks for the info, but it sounds like it’s not quite what I was hoping for.
Scott P. Escott
David Gibbs wrote:
Scott Escott <> escotts@info-methods.com> > wrote:
POSIX.4 describes the prototype for a signal handler as:void foo(int signo, siginfo_t *extra, void *ignored);
The only reference in signal.h is to a handler that accepts only a
single argument (signo).Are these additional parameters supported in QNX 4.25/Watcom 10.6?
Yes…
From an old post by Steve McPolin:
: From > steve@qnx.com > Tue Sep 16 15:58:01 EDT 1997
: Article: 6374 of comp.os.qnx
: Path: gateway.qnx.com!not-for-mail
: From: > steve@qnx.com > (Steve McPolin)
: Newsgroups: comp.os.qnx
: Subject: Re: Getting signal context
: Date: 6 Aug 1997 15:01:08 GMT
: Organization: QNX Software Systems
: Lines: 107
: Message-ID: <5sa3jk$> oc9@qnx.com
: References: <> u4zpqvn1jj.fsf@stlind.lint.lyngso-industri.dk.lyngso-industri.dk
: NNTP-Posting-Host: gateway.qnx.com
: X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test58 (13 May 97)
:
: In article <> u4zpqvn1jj.fsf@stlind.lint.lyngso-industri.dk.lyngso-industri.dk> >,
: Jeppe Sommer <> jso@stlind.lint.lyngso-industri.dk.lyngso-industri.dk> > wrote:
:
: >Is there a way of getting the signal context from within a signal
: >handler in QNX (i.e., the state of the CPU just before the signal is
: >delivered)?.
:
: >On other (Unix like) systems this is typically available as an extra
: >argument to the signal handler.
:
: >Looking at the signal handlers stack from within the Watcom debugger,
: >it seems that most of the CPU registers are in fact placed further
: >down the stack (I am compiling with stack calling conventions).
: >Unfortunatly these do not seem to be at a fixed distance to the
: >stack top.
:
: >Does anyone have a clue about how this could be done? I am primarily
: >interested in the instruction pointer register.
:
: The structure below defines it, it is available as the second argument
: but the compiler is AR about calling signal with a function which
: doesn’t match 'void ()(int)’ – you can cast it away to void .
:
: example:
: #include <signal.h
: #include <sys/sigcontext.h> / follows if you don’t have it in your system /
:
: void catch(int signo, SIGCONTEXT scp)
: {
: printf(“death by signal %u at 0x%lx\n”, signo, scp->sc_ip);
: exit(1);
: }
:
:
: The fields:
: ulong_t sc_info; / fault specific info /
: ushort_t sc_errc; / error code pushed by processor /
: uchar_t sc_fault; / actual fault # /
: uchar_t sc_flags; / signal handler flags: /
: are only available in 424 and above, as is the sigaltstack() et al…
:
:
: #ifndef sigcont_h
: #define sigcont_h 1
:
:
: #ifndef __TYPES_H_INCLUDED
: #include <sys/types.h
: #endif
:
: typedef struct _sigcontext SIGCONTEXT;
: struct _sigcontext {
: ulong_t sc_mask;
: ulong_t sc_gs:16,:16; / register set at fault time /
: ulong_t sc_fs:16,:16;
: ulong_t sc_es:16,:16;
: ulong_t sc_ds:16,:16;
: ulong_t sc_di;
: ulong_t sc_si;
: ulong_t sc_bp;
: ulong_t :32; / hole from pushad /
: ulong_t sc_bx;
: ulong_t sc_dx;
: ulong_t sc_cx;
: ulong_t sc_ax;
: ulong_t sc_ip;
: ulong_t sc_cs:16, :16;
: ulong_t sc_fl;
: ulong_t sc_sp;
: ulong_t sc_ss:16, :16;
: ulong_t sc_info; / fault specific info /
: ushort_t sc_errc; / error code pushed by processor /
: uchar_t sc_fault; / actual fault # /
: uchar_t sc_flags; / signal handler flags: /
: #define SC_ONSTACK 1
: };
:
: enum {
: TRAP_ZDIV = 0, / SIGFPE: divide by zero /
: TRAP_DEBUG = 1, / SIGTRAP: debug fault /
: TRAP_NMI = 2, / SGIBUS: nmi fault /
: TRAP_BRKPT = 3, / SIGTRAP: cpu breakpoint /
: TRAP_OFLOW = 4, / SIGFPE: integer overflow/
: TRAP_BOUNDS = 5, / SIGFPE: bound instn failed*/
: TRAP_BADOP = 6, /* SIGILL: invalid opcode /
: TRAP_NONDP = 7, / SIGFPE: NDP not present or available /
: TRAP_DFAULT = 8, / never: double fault (system error) /
: TRAP_NDPSEGV = 9, / SIGSEGV: NDP invalid address /
: TRAP_BADTSS = 10, / never: invalid tss (system error) /
: TRAP_NOTPRESENT=11, / SIGSEGV: referenced segment not preset /
: TRAP_NOSTACK = 12, / SIGSEGV: esp|ebp bad address /
: TRAP_GPF = 13, / SIGSEGV: other /
: TRAP_PAGE = 14, / SIGSEGV: page fault /
: TRAP_FPERROR = 16, / SIGFPE: floating point error */
: };
:
: #define __ERRC_VALID (1<<TRAP_DFAULT | 1<<TRAP_BADTSS |
: 1<<TRAP_NOTPRESENT | 1<<TRAP_NOSTACK | 1<<TRAP_GPF | 1<<TRAP_PAGE )
:
: #define __INFO_VALID (1<<TRAP_PAGE)
:
:
: #endif
: –
: Steve McPolin, QNX Software Systems, Ltd.