Re: what is a bus error?

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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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