Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 12:10:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex Belits <abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us> To: "Darren R. Davis" <drdavis@calderasystems.com> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, Scm486@aol.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape Bus Error Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.02A.9909281208490.18466-100000@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us> In-Reply-To: <37F0DC3D.7F4A969D@calderasystems.com>
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On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Darren R. Davis wrote: > I believe that a Bus Error is specifically referencing miss aligned data vs > segmentation violation > (SIGSEGV) which is accessing data that is either free'd or not yours, etc. > I always thought > it strange on an Intel processor, since this was more a 68K/RISC thing. > The only penalty on Intel > was taking many more cycles to complete. Of course I haven't looked that > deeply at what the > code handling for the bus error signal really detects. But, never the > less, it is still a Netscape bug. It's SIGSEGV in disguise -- netscape intercepts it and generates SIGBUS: ---8<--- abelits@es1840$ netscape& [1] 67114 abelits@es1840$ kill -SEGV 67114 abelits@es1840$ [1]+ Bus error netscape abelits@es1840$ --->8--- -- Alex ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Excellent.. now give users the option to cut your hair you hippie! -- Anonymous Coward To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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