Why do I get crash reports when running 32-bit PPC Allegro CL?
This is a known bug in Mac OS X. Programs which catch Unix-style signals and handle them will still result in “crash” reports being generated erroneously by the CrashReporter. See http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2004/tn2123.html#SECLIMITATIONS and note close to the end of the page under the heading “CrashReporter Limitations”, specifically the bug labelled 2941263. It looks from the page as though this CrashReporter has only started in MacOSX 10.4, but we’ve seen the crash logs occur before that; perhaps it is just the newer facilities that are more verbose. For all other and future Mac OS X ports (including the 64-bit PPC port and Intel Mac OS X) we have moved our exception handling style away from Unix-style signals, and instead use the Mach exception style that Mac OS X is used to seeing. We currently have no plans to back-port this new style to the 32-bit PPC Mac. You may be able to control the logging of these crash reports, depending on what the current state of the tools
