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Re: what is a bus error?
You wouldn't happen to be having problems with netscape, would you?
Chuck
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 06:24:48PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> we all know what a segfault is.
>
> however, what exactly is a "bus error"? can somone show me a "hello
> world" type program that barfs with a SIGBUS? something like:
>
> char *p; /* p is a pointer to a char */
> p = (char *) rand(); /* now p points to la-la land */
> printf("\%c", *p); /* whammo: a segfault! */
>
> but which produces a bus error...
>
> pete
>
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