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Document that AMD GPU's DX_CLAMP disables reporting SIGFPE
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t-tye authored and lmoriche committed Sep 13, 2021
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@value{GDBN} does not support reading or writing to the @code{region}
address space. A memory access error is reported.

@item
If an @acronym{AMD GPU} wavefront has the @code{DX10_CLAMP} bit set in
the @code{MODE} register, enabled arithmetic exceptions will not be
reported as @code{SIGFPE} signals. This happens if the
@code{DX10_CLAMP} kernel descriptor field is enabled.

@xref{AMD GPU Signals, , @acronym{AMD GPU} Signals}.

@end enumerate

@node Controlling GDB
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