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11/3/71SYS_ILGINS (II)

NAME ilgins -- catch illegal instruction trap
SYNOPSIS sys ilgins; arg / ilgins = 33.; not in assembler
DESCRIPTION ilgins allows a program to catch illegal instructiontraps. If arg is zero, the normal instruction trap


handling is done: the process is terminated and a coreimage is produced. If arg is a location within the program, control is passed to arg when the trap occurs. This call is used to implement the floating pointsimulator, which catches and interprets 11/45 floating point instructions.
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SEE_ALSO fptrap, the floating point package
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OWNER ken, dmr