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SubjectRe: CPU options during config
> interrupt handler.  one of them was "BPI" -- branch pending interrupt --
> which allowed application programmers to identify instructions that
> they thought might cause a software exception, and code a branch to
> an appropriate error routine. easy, and didn't require any kind of
> special signal handling.

I think that could be possible but for the code paths that it would be used
for, I think it might be too "bloaty" although I'd love to be proved wrong. :)


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