[Users] trapping SEGFAULT in CarpetLib's backtrace routines

[Roland Haas]

Hello all,

I noticed that the routine request_backtrace in
CarpetLib/src/backtrace.cc only sets signal handlers for some of the
signals, namely:

void request_backtraces() {
  signal(SIGQUIT, signal_handler);
  signal(SIGILL, signal_handler);
  signal(SIGABRT, signal_handler);
  signal(SIGFPE, signal_handler);
  signal(SIGBUS, signal_handler);
}

which has the unfortunate side effect that in a test run of mine on
Stampede2 (2020_05 option lists, Intel MPI stack and compiler) no
backtrace was generated when I triggered a SEGFAULT.

The only indication for a SEGFAULT was the error number (11) reported by MPI.

Obviously adding 

  signal(SIGSEGV, signal_handler);

is trivial and it does indeed give a me a backtrace.

Given the simplicity I am wondering if there was a reason whey SIGSEGV
is not trapped by CarpetLib?

Yours,
Roland

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