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- Interrupts
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- While a calculation is in progress, you can generate the SIGINT
- signal, and the calculator will catch it. At appropriate points
- within a calculation, the calculator will check that the signal
- has been given, and will abort the calculation cleanly. If the
- calculator is in the middle of a large calculation, it might be
- a while before the interrupt has an effect.
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- You can generate the SIGINT signal multiple times if necessary,
- and each time the calculator will abort the calculation at a more
- risky place within the calculation. Each new interrupt prints a
- message of the form:
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- [Abort level n]
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- where n ranges from 1 to 3. For n equal to 1, the calculator will
- abort calculations at the next statement boundary. For n equal to 2,
- the calculator will abort calculations at the next opcode boundary.
- For n equal to 3, the calculator will abort calculations at the next
- lowest level arithmetic operation boundary.
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- If a final interrupt is given when n is 3, the calculator will
- immediately abort the current calculation and longjmp back to the
- top level command level. Doing this may result in corrupted data
- structures and unpredictable future behavior, and so should only
- be done as a last resort. You are advised to quit the calculator
- after this has been done.
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