From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 10 01:13:18 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA20547 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 10 Feb 1997 01:13:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from news.IAEhv.nl (root@news.IAEhv.nl [194.151.64.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id BAA20514 for ; Mon, 10 Feb 1997 01:12:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from truk.brandinnovators.com (uucp@localhost) by news.IAEhv.nl (8.6.13/1.63) with IAEhv.nl; pid 9408 on Mon, 10 Feb 1997 10:11:59 +0100; id KAA09408 efrom: hans@truk.brandinnovators.com; eto: UNKNOWN Received: by truk.brandinnovators.com (8.7.5/BI96070101) for <> id JAA22878; Mon, 10 Feb 1997 09:48:16 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <199702100848.JAA22878@truk.brandinnovators.com> From: hans@brandinnovators.com (Hans Zuidam) Subject: Re: Bus Errors To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 09:48:15 +0100 (MET) Cc: cmott@srv.net In-Reply-To: from Jamie Bowden at "Feb 9, 97 08:31:00 pm" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Jamie Bowden wrote: > On Sun, 9 Feb 1997, Charles Mott wrote: > > > What does "Bus error" mean? > Amazingly enough, a buss error is a memory allocation error. At least it > was under SunOS. I am guessing FreeBSD is the same on this. The term "Bus error" originated from the Motorola M68K where this is a signal line which is raised when the CPU tries to access (for example) unaligned data. The early Suns (Sun/2, Sun/3) were M68K based machines. Custom had it that you would shout "buzz, buzz!" when one would happen :-) Hans -- H. Zuidam E-Mail: hans@brandinnovators.com Brand Innovators B.V. P-Mail: P.O. Box 1377 de Pinckart 54 5602 BJ Eindhoven, The Netherlands 5674 CC Nuenen Tel. +31 40 2631134, Fax. +31 40 2831138