Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 25 Jul 1997 14:24:56 +0200 | | From | Janos Farkas <Janos.Farkas-#> | | Subject | Re: Segmentation fault! |
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On Thu, Jul 24, 1997 at 08:01:29PM -0400, Kevin M. Bealer wrote: > 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.
Bus errors are quite rare on intel, but netscape is just faking them. When faced with a SIGSEGV, it just kills itself with SIGBUS, confusing matters. So, when netscape is involved, forget about SIGBUS, something other has happened.
-- Janos - Don't worry, my address works. I'm just bored of spam.
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