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authorGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>1997-02-14 22:53:12 +0000
committerGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>1997-02-14 22:53:12 +0000
commitd44da7e8cd4b2a5257a7eb2958a08107de84b6fd (patch)
tree3cb1617d4ef5c8083f54542f2358d98a55248c0d
parent2019477057eb836df7ea416e307e0a1981f5a307 (diff)
downloadcpython-d44da7e8cd4b2a5257a7eb2958a08107de84b6fd.tar.gz
Changes for Lee Busby's SIGFPE patch set.
New file pyfpe.h, new exception FloatingPointError.
-rw-r--r--Include/allobjects.h2
-rw-r--r--Include/pyerrors.h1
-rw-r--r--Include/pyfpe.h164
-rw-r--r--Include/rename2.h1
4 files changed, 168 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Include/allobjects.h b/Include/allobjects.h
index 8c7f6c33d4..f2961c009e 100644
--- a/Include/allobjects.h
+++ b/Include/allobjects.h
@@ -113,4 +113,6 @@ PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
#include "rename2.h"
#endif
+#include "pyfpe.h"
+
#endif /* !Py_ALLOBJECTS_H */
diff --git a/Include/pyerrors.h b/Include/pyerrors.h
index b29ec0314a..61751e6273 100644
--- a/Include/pyerrors.h
+++ b/Include/pyerrors.h
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ extern DL_IMPORT(PyObject *) PyExc_AccessError;
extern DL_IMPORT(PyObject *) PyExc_AttributeError;
extern DL_IMPORT(PyObject *) PyExc_ConflictError;
extern DL_IMPORT(PyObject *) PyExc_EOFError;
+extern DL_IMPORT(PyObject *) PyExc_FloatingPointError;
extern DL_IMPORT(PyObject *) PyExc_IOError;
extern DL_IMPORT(PyObject *) PyExc_ImportError;
extern DL_IMPORT(PyObject *) PyExc_IndexError;
diff --git a/Include/pyfpe.h b/Include/pyfpe.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ef44e66208
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Include/pyfpe.h
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+#ifndef Py_PYFPE_H
+#define Py_PYFPE_H
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+extern "C" {
+#endif
+/*
+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------
+ / Copyright (c) 1996. \
+ | The Regents of the University of California. |
+ | All rights reserved. |
+ | |
+ | Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for |
+ | any purpose without fee is hereby granted, provided that this en- |
+ | tire notice is included in all copies of any software which is or |
+ | includes a copy or modification of this software and in all |
+ | copies of the supporting documentation for such software. |
+ | |
+ | This work was produced at the University of California, Lawrence |
+ | Livermore National Laboratory under contract no. W-7405-ENG-48 |
+ | between the U.S. Department of Energy and The Regents of the |
+ | University of California for the operation of UC LLNL. |
+ | |
+ | DISCLAIMER |
+ | |
+ | This software was prepared as an account of work sponsored by an |
+ | agency of the United States Government. Neither the United States |
+ | Government nor the University of California nor any of their em- |
+ | ployees, makes any warranty, express or implied, or assumes any |
+ | liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or |
+ | usefulness of any information, apparatus, product, or process |
+ | disclosed, or represents that its use would not infringe |
+ | privately-owned rights. Reference herein to any specific commer- |
+ | cial products, process, or service by trade name, trademark, |
+ | manufacturer, or otherwise, does not necessarily constitute or |
+ | imply its endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by the United |
+ | States Government or the University of California. The views and |
+ | opinions of authors expressed herein do not necessarily state or |
+ | reflect those of the United States Government or the University |
+ | of California, and shall not be used for advertising or product |
+ \ endorsement purposes. /
+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------
+*/
+
+/*
+ * Define macros for handling SIGFPE.
+ * Lee Busby, LLNL, November, 1996
+ * busby1@llnl.gov
+ *
+ *********************************************
+ * Overview of the system for handling SIGFPE:
+ *
+ * This file (Include/pyfpe.h) defines a couple of "wrapper" macros for
+ * insertion into your Python C code of choice. Their proper use is
+ * discussed below. The file Python/pyfpe.c defines a pair of global
+ * variables PyFPE_jbuf and PyFPE_counter which are used by the signal
+ * handler for SIGFPE to decide if a particular exception was protected
+ * by the macros. The signal handler itself, and code for enabling the
+ * generation of SIGFPE in the first place, is in a (new) Python module
+ * named fpectl. This module is standard in every respect. It can be loaded
+ * either statically or dynamically as you choose, and like any other
+ * Python module, has no effect until you import it.
+ *
+ * In the general case, there are three steps toward handling SIGFPE in any
+ * Python code:
+ *
+ * 1) Add the *_PROTECT macros to your C code as required to protect
+ * dangerous floating point sections.
+ *
+ * 2) Turn on the inclusion of the code by #defining WANT_SIGFPE_HANDLER in
+ * config.h.in before you configure, compile, and install Python, and the
+ * fpectl module, and any other modules which may have conditional code.
+ *
+ * 3) When python is built and running, import fpectl, and execute
+ * fpectl.turnon_sigfpe(). This sets up the signal handler and enables
+ * generation of SIGFPE whenever an exception occurs. From this point
+ * on, any properly trapped SIGFPE should result in the Python
+ * FloatingPointError exception.
+ *
+ * Step 1 has been done already for the Python kernel code, and will be
+ * done soon for Hugunin's NumPy array package and my Gist graphics module.
+ * Step 2 is usually done once at python install time. Python's behavior
+ * with respect to SIGFPE is not changed unless you also do step 3. Thus
+ * you can control this new facility at compile time, or run time, or both.
+ *
+ ********************************
+ * Using the macros in your code:
+ *
+ * static PyObject *foobar(PyObject *self,PyObject *args)
+ * {
+ * ....
+ * PyFPE_START_PROTECT("Error in foobar", return 0)
+ * dangerous_op(somearg1, somearg2, ...);
+ * PyFPE_END_PROTECT
+ * ....
+ * }
+ *
+ * If a floating point error occurs in dangerous_op, foobar returns 0
+ * (NULL), after setting the associated value of the FloatingPointError
+ * exception to "Error in foobar". ``Dangerous_op'' can be a single
+ * operation, or a block, or function calls, or any combination, so long as
+ * no alternate return is possible before the PyFPE_END_PROTECT macro is
+ * reached.
+ *
+ * The macros can only be used in a function context where an error return
+ * can be recognized as signaling a Python exception. (Generally, most
+ * functions that return a PyObject * will qualify.)
+ *
+ * Guido's original design suggestion for PyFPE_START_PROTECT and
+ * PyFPE_END_PROTECT had them open and close a local block, with a locally
+ * defined jmp_buf and jmp_buf pointer. This would allow recursive nesting
+ * of the macros. The Ansi C standard makes it clear that such local
+ * variables need to be declared with the "volatile" type qualifier to keep
+ * setjmp from corrupting their values. Some current implementations seem
+ * to be more restrictive. For example, the HPUX man page for setjmp says
+ *
+ * Upon the return from a setjmp() call caused by a longjmp(), the
+ * values of any non-static local variables belonging to the routine
+ * from which setjmp() was called are undefined. Code which depends on
+ * such values is not guaranteed to be portable.
+ *
+ * I therefore decided on a more limited form of nesting, using a counter
+ * variable (PyFPE_counter) to keep track of any recursion. If an exception
+ * occurs in an ``inner'' pair of macros, the return will apparently
+ * come from the top level.
+ *
+ */
+
+#ifdef WANT_SIGFPE_HANDLER
+#include <signal.h>
+#include <setjmp.h>
+#include <math.h>
+extern jmp_buf PyFPE_jbuf;
+extern int PyFPE_counter;
+extern double PyFPE_dummy(void);
+
+#define PyFPE_START_PROTECT(err_string, leave_stmt) \
+if (!PyFPE_counter++ && setjmp(PyFPE_jbuf)) { \
+ PyFPE_counter = 0; \
+ PyErr_SetString(PyExc_FloatingPointError, err_string); \
+ leave_stmt; \
+}
+
+/*
+ * This (following) is a heck of a way to decrement a counter. However,
+ * code optimizers will sometimes move this statement so that it gets
+ * executed *before* the unsafe expression which we're trying to protect.
+ * This pretty well messes things up, of course. So the best I've been able
+ * to do is to put a (hopefully fast) function call into the expression
+ * which counts down PyFPE_counter, and thereby monkey wrench the overeager
+ * optimizer. Better solutions are welcomed....
+ */
+#define PyFPE_END_PROTECT PyFPE_counter -= (int)PyFPE_dummy();
+
+#else
+
+#define PyFPE_START_PROTECT(err_string, leave_stmt)
+#define PyFPE_END_PROTECT
+
+#endif
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+}
+#endif
+#endif /* !Py_PYFPE_H */
diff --git a/Include/rename2.h b/Include/rename2.h
index 47c90cb198..895a83d1b9 100644
--- a/Include/rename2.h
+++ b/Include/rename2.h
@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
#define AttributeError PyExc_AttributeError
#define ConflictError PyExc_ConflictError
#define EOFError PyExc_EOFError
+#define FloatingPointError PyExc_FloatingPointError
#define IOError PyExc_IOError
#define ImportError PyExc_ImportError
#define IndexError PyExc_IndexError