[racket-dev] memory consumption (bug?) on Debian/kFreeBSD-i386

On Tue, 10 May 2011 00:14:42 -0300, David Bremner <bremner at debian.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 9 May 2011 06:56:48 -0600, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> > Maybe someone decided that SIGSEGV is the right signal after all for an
> > mprotect() violation (which Rackets catches as a write barrier) instead
> > of SIGBUS.
> 
> I suppose there is a good reason not to catch both signals?
> 
> David

I don't claim to understand all the implications yet, but the following
patch seems to work, i.e. catching both SIGSEGV and SIGBUS with the same
handler.

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