commit 00a66a6fe84b13751b86d3e18dc7617e4d1dd0b4
author Chris Dearman <chris@mips.com> Tue Jul 10 11:46:55 2012 -0700
committer Elliott Hughes <enh@google.com> Tue Jul 24 17:42:06 2012 -0700
tree 66df44b3f0e149f6e236a11b53e25166ad50c89e
parent c98e2365cdd0c2330711118b689171df143f6399

[MIPS] Use an aligned address to provoke SIGSEGV in abort()

Change-Id: I269c9ccc07058773fb0f9d70673673157ab38f6a

libc/unistd/abort.c

diff --git a/libc/unistd/abort.c b/libc/unistd/abort.c
index a3f8c54..58d620d 100644
--- a/libc/unistd/abort.c
+++ b/libc/unistd/abort.c
@@ -79,7 +79,12 @@
 
     /* temporary, for bug hunting */
     /* seg fault seems to produce better debuggerd results than SIGABRT */
+#ifdef __mips__
+    /* An access that will generate SIGSEGV rather than SIGBUS. */
+    *((char*)0xdeadc0c0) = 39;
+#else
     *((char*)0xdeadbaad) = 39;
+#endif
     /* -- */
 
 	(void)kill(getpid(), SIGABRT);