Re: Determining address which caused SEGV

Patrick J. LoPresti (patl@cag.lcs.mit.edu)
07 Jan 2000 19:16:32 -0500


Jamie Lokier <lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk> writes:

> You can just do this:
>
> void user_segv_handler (int sig, struct sigcontext_struct context)
> {
> unsigned long fault_address = context.cr2;
> // ...
> }

Ah. So what is cr2, and where is it documented? Is there a reason
why the same information should not be copied to the si_addr field of
the siginfo_t as the documentation says?

Oh, and thanks :-).

- Pat

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