Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 18:52:26 -0500
Message-Id: <199902022352.SAA14529@envy.delorie.com>
From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
In-reply-to: <3.0.6.32.19990202154617.0090ada0@pop.netaddress.com> (message
	from Paul Derbyshire on Tue, 02 Feb 1999 15:46:17 -0500)
Subject: Re: Alignment fault signals
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> >Yes.  SIGBUS is common, but it's not defined by POSIX because it's
> >implementation dependent.
> 
> Why not have an ANSI or at least POSIX signal macro for this,

You'd have to ask the ANSI and/or POSIX committees about this.  I
think it's just because they're so undefined anyway, there was no
point putting them in the spec.  Why specify something that can't be
specified?