Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 7 Oct 1999 13:26:22 +0200 | From | Matthew Wilcox <> | Subject | Re: a small doubt |
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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.
-- 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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