Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 7 Feb 1998 15:57:09 -0500 (EST) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: Bus Errors! |
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The Intel machines allow access of any sized object at any alignment. They run faster if large objects are aligned on their natural boundaries.
For this reason, Intel machines can't produce bus errors from unnatural alignments. Further, there are no bus signals (bits) that could possibly be operated in the event of some hardware generated error related to the bus.
Therefore "bus errors" on Intel machines can't exist. However, some poorly-written code may use the SIGBUS signal in some improper way.
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