SIGEMT/SIGIOT
John Bruner
jdb at mordor.UUCP
Wed Sep 4 01:34:13 AEST 1985
EMT traps on the PDP-11 occur when you execute an EMT instruction.
The EMT instruction is the same as the TRAP instruction except that
it uses a different vector. DEC operating systems use EMT's for
system calls.
If there is no floating-point hardware, executing a floating-point
instruction will cause an *illegal instruction* trap.
The abort() library routine generates SIGIOT (except in Berkeley UNIX,
where it generates an illegal instruction trap).
--
John Bruner (S-1 Project, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
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