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Subject: Re: Serious compatibility breakage in -current.
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"Carl Shapiro" <carl.shapiro@gmail.com> writes:
> The switch from SIGBUS to SIGSEGV is well motivated.

Is it?  I see no mention of it in the commit log for the revision that
actually implemented the change.  David argued on -CURRENT that it is
more POSIXly correct, provided that he interpreted POSIX correctly; how
do other operating systems behave in this case?

DES
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