Philip Blundell wrote:
> Yes; the signal handler can modify the register state (including the program
> counter if you so desire) at the instant the signal was delivered. So you can
> unthread the signal handler and make control immediately pass somewhere else
> without actually returning to the place where the signal was delivered.
>
> See the sigcontext structure for details. Exactly how you get at it is
> probably architecture dependent.
That's exactly what I was looking for. It even works as desired. The
question is: Can I be sure that the layout of a sigframe won't change?
It's not documented in the man pages, so it's probably not meant to be
used by user code?
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