On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 06:25:05AM -0000, Dinesh Gandhewar wrote: > > Hello, > What is the effect of following statement at the end of function definition? > *(int *)0 = 0; It will try and write 0 to the memory location 0. On x86 this will cause an invalid page fault, as writing to 0 is a null pointer deref, this will cause an Oops, prolly your function doesn't want to go there. -- Mark Zealey (aka JALH on irc.openprojects.net: #zealos and many more) mark@zealos.org mark@itsolve.co.uk UL++++>$ G!>(GCM/GCS/GS/GM) dpu? s:-@ a16! C++++>$ P++++>+++++$ L+++>+++++$ !E---? W+++>$ N- !o? !w--- O? !M? !V? !PS !PE--@ PGP+? r++ !t---?@ !X---? !R- b+ !tv b+ DI+ D+? G+++ e>+++++ !h++* r!-- y-- (www.geekcode.com) - Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/
