On Mon, 01 May 2000, you wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> > Seems to me that this would only catch near-infinite loops. Since an
> > infinite loop lasts forever, the timer in comm.c will never be reached.
> >
>
> I don't know about the windows platform but in Unix signals are delivered
> and handled asynchronously (sp?). That means if caught in an infinite
> loop, a signal will execute the code in the signal handler, and after
> that is done, it will jump back to the infinite loop.
>
> - Chris
>
A quick check of the code shows that the tic timer for infinite loops is
in fact Unix only.
Siggy
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