[Python-Dev] Strategy for converting the decimal module to C

[Greg Ewing]

Nick Maclaren wrote:

> Er, no.  Try a machine-check in a TLB miss handler.  But it is all
> pretty irrelevant, as the problem arises with asychronous exceptions
> (e.g. timer interrupts, signals from other processes), anyway.

But we weren't talking about asynchronous exceptions,
we were talking about floating point exceptions. Unless
your TLB miss handler uses floating point arithmethic,
there's no way it can get interrupted by one. (And if
it does use floating point arithmetic in a way that
can cause an exception, you'd better write it to deal
with that!)

--
Greg