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Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2014 10:20:00 -0000
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2 v3] Demangler crash handler
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To: Gary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>
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> Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2014 11:09:57 +0100
> From: Gary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>
> Cc: Andrew Burgess <aburgess@broadcom.com>, Doug Evans <xdje42@gmail.com>,
>         Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>,
>         Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>,
>         Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>, Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
> 
> This patch wraps calls to the demangler with a segmentation fault
> handler.  The first time a segmentation fault is caught a core file
> is generated and the user is prompted to file a bug and offered the
> choice to exit or to continue their GDB session.  A maintainence
> option is provided to allow the user to disable the crash handler
> if required.

The documentation part is OK.

> Eli pointed out that SIGSEGV is an ANSI-standard signal but I found
> various other SIGSEGV checks in GDB

They should all be removed.