Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 8 Nov 2001 16:32:34 -0500 (EST) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: Bug Report: Dereferencing a bad pointer |
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On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, David Chandler wrote:
> Dick, > > You're right that the one-liner below may not necessarily produce a seg > fault, but shouldn't it terminate normally if it doesn't? After all, > the program just *reads*. Hanging does not seem to be an option! > You may want to see if any deliberate seg-fault actually gets delivered. Try to read *(0). If that works (seg-faults), then there may be a problem with some boundary condition on paging.
I can't duplicate the problem here. You can also try to trace the code execution to see if it falls into some user-space loop.
Cheers, Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.1 on an i686 machine (799.53 BogoMips).
I was going to compile a list of innovations that could be attributed to Microsoft. Once I realized that Ctrl-Alt-Del was handled in the BIOS, I found that there aren't any.
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