Re: SEGFAULTS???
Jon Tombs (jon@gte.esi.us.es)
Tue, 16 Apr 1996 18:53:43 +0200 (MET DST)
Howard C. Tyler said:
>
>
> Why does moving a 486 register to another register fail as
> as "Segmentation fault"?
> Can anyone tell me how many other non-hardware problems are
> being reported under the heading "Segmentation fault"?
Because you don't have permission to read the register?, maybe the
error should be SIGILL, but I'm guessing that the linux fault handler
doesn't know/care what produced the general protection trap.
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Jon. <jon@gte.esi.us.es, http://www.esi.us.es/~jon>