[Openmcl-devel] ccl and macOS Mojave

[Stas Boukarev]

Can you use mach exceptions instead?

On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 1:52 AM R. Matthew Emerson <rme at acm.org> wrote:

> Hi everyone.
>
> As you may know, there are some compatibility issues with CCL and macOS
> Mojave.
>
> The symptom is that the Lisp will crash into the Lisp kernel debugger with
> a message like "sigreturn returned" (on 1.11.5) or else with a message like
> "unhandled exception 4".
>
> The GitHub issue for this is https://github.com/Clozure/ccl/issues/146
>
> I ran CCL under a debug kernel, and I got the message:
>
> process dx86cl64[405] sigreturn token mismatch: received 0x7ffeefbff120
> expected 0xb993f3f80d520774
>
> I think this is because Mojave has code to detect the case where a
> sigreturn doesn't match up with a signal that the kernel delivered.
> Ideally, I'd like to find some way to disable this for now, until I can
> come up with a way change CCL so that it isn't affected by this.
>
> CCL currently does semi-naughty things like copying around signal contexts
> and calling sigreturn explicitly (rather than just falling off the end of a
> signal handler).
>
> Any suggestions or tips would be appreciated.
>
> -m
>
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