Re: [PATCH 1/3] signal.7: Better description for SIGFPE

[Alejandro Colomar]

Oops, this was sent by accident.

On Sun, Nov 03, 2024 at 12:10:27AM +0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>
> 
> SIGFPE has comment "Floating-point exception", which corresponds to
> the FPE acronym.  But this is misleading as this signal may also be
> generated by an integer division by 0.
> 
> Change it to "Erroneous arithmetic operation" from POSIX.
> Note: the GNU C Library manual says "fatal arithmetic error".
> 
> Link: 
> <https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/basedefs/signal.h.html>
> Link: 
> <https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Program-Error-Signals.html>
> Signed-off-by: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>
> Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
> ---
>  man/man7/signal.7 | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/man/man7/signal.7 b/man/man7/signal.7
> index 7a9e91cc7..d19f171b3 100644
> --- a/man/man7/signal.7
> +++ b/man/man7/signal.7
> @@ -373,7 +373,7 @@ .SS Standard signals
>  SIGCLD       \-      Ign     A synonym for \fBSIGCHLD\fP
>  SIGCONT      P1990   Cont    Continue if stopped
>  SIGEMT       \-      Term    Emulator trap
> -SIGFPE       P1990   Core    Floating-point exception
> +SIGFPE       P1990   Core    Erroneous arithmetic operation
>  SIGHUP       P1990   Term    Hangup detected on controlling terminal
>                       or death of controlling process
>  SIGILL       P1990   Core    Illegal Instruction
> -- 
> 2.39.5
> 



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