Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: a small doubt | | From | Jes Sorensen <> | | Date | 07 Oct 1999 14:34:36 +0200 |
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>>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew Wilcox <Matthew.Wilcox@genedata.com> writes:
Matthew> On Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 02:47:45PM +0530, CHANDRIKA H V Matthew> wrote: >> *(int *)0 = 0 ; >> >> What is the meaning/significance of this ?
Matthew> This is a normal way of causing an Oops. It gets you a stack Matthew> backtrace and register dump which may help you find the cause Matthew> of the problem.
And a very bad one indeed since some architectures have page 0 mapped.
Jes
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