From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 15 18:58:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA03919 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 18:58:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bright.fx.genx.net (bright.fx.genx.net [206.64.4.154]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA03891 for ; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 18:58:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@hotjobs.com) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by bright.fx.genx.net (8.9.1/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA03889; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 21:59:16 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bright@hotjobs.com) X-Authentication-Warning: bright.fx.genx.net: bright owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 21:59:16 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein X-Sender: bright@bright.fx.genx.net To: Joel Ray Holveck cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Catching SIGSEGV In-Reply-To: <199809152226.RAA13470@detlev.UUCP> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > there was an OS that did something funky to the first page of memory that > > allowed programmers to abuse the fact that it was null and accessable. > > many programs broke when the system was brought to a different > > archetecture. > > You're using it. (i posted that after 24hours of coding / fighting a bad fbsd install) anyhow, the OS was BSD, and it was the VAX that it was done on? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message