Messages in this thread | | | From | "Kevin M. Bealer" <> | Subject | Re: Segmentation fault! | Date | Thu, 24 Jul 1997 20:01:29 -0400 |
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Tim Hollebeek wrote: >Sachin Garg writes ... >> >> Also, many times netscape exits with a "bus error". > >Unfortunately, that's "normal" for netscape. Not as noticeable on Windows, >where the OS crashes almost as often as the apps that run under it. > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Tim Hollebeek | Disclaimer :=> Everything above is a true statement, >Electron Psychologist | for sufficiently false values of true. >Princeton University | email: tim@wfn-shop.princeton.edu >----------------------| http://wfn-shop.princeton.edu/~tim (NEW! IMPROVED!)
What does a bus error exactly refer to on an intel type machine? I thought bus errors referred strictly to "unaligned memory access" (fetching words on halfword boundaries et al), which I understood to be slow-but-legal on intel hardware.
--kmb203@psu.edu----------------Debian/GNU--1.3---Linux--2.0.30--- THE LESSER-KNOWN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES #12: LITHP This otherwise unremarkable language is distinguished by the absence of an "S" in its character set; users must substitute "TH". LITHP is said to be useful in protheththing lithtth.
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