[PATCH 0/5] Preliminary Exception Manager Work

[Kinsey Moore]

On 8/23/2021 21:41, Chris Johns wrote:
> On 24/8/21 9:50 am, Kinsey Moore wrote:
>> This patch set contains the result of the Exception Manager work I
>> proposed a while back to manage handling of machine exceptions along
>> with a general feature for mapping exceptions to POSIX signals without
>> delving into the CPU Port-specific details. This is a pretty basic
>> initial implementation, but it can easily be expanded with mutators for
>> the CPU_Exception_frame for additional capabilities. Also included is a
>> test that demonstrates usage of the Exception Manager and exception to
>> signal mapping functionality.
> Could you please provide a link to the previous discussion?

Most of the discussion occurred here:

https://lists.rtems.org/pipermail/devel/2021-April/066597.html

I sent out my consolidated thoughts here:

https://lists.rtems.org/pipermail/devel/2021-April/066902.html

> I have some concerns on how this interface and libdebugger are to work?

Theoretically, libdebugger should be able to be implemented on top of 
this with some additional CPU_Exception_frame and machine state 
manipulators. I think I captured a reasonable set of generic exceptions 
for this purpose.


Kinsey