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SubjectRe: a small doubt
On Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 02:47:45PM +0530, CHANDRIKA H V wrote:
> *(int *)0 = 0 ;
>
> What is the meaning/significance of this ?

This is a normal way of causing an Oops. It gets you a stack backtrace and
register dump which may help you find the cause of the problem.

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Matthew Wilcox <willy@bofh.ai>
"Windows and MacOS are products, contrived by engineers in the service of
specific companies. Unix, by contrast, is not so much a product as it is a
painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture." - N Stephenson

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