Re: Segmentation fault!
Kevin M. Bealer (kmb203@psu.edu)
Thu, 24 Jul 1997 20:01:29 -0400
Tim Hollebeek wrote:
>Sachin Garg writes ...
>>
>> Also, many times netscape exits with a "bus error".
>
>Unfortunately, that's "normal" for netscape. Not as noticeable on Windows,
>where the OS crashes almost as often as the apps that run under it.
>
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What does a bus error exactly refer to on an intel type machine? I
thought bus errors referred strictly to "unaligned memory access"
(fetching words on halfword boundaries et al), which I understood to
be slow-but-legal on intel hardware.
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