Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 08:33:09 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Cc: gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu Subject: Re: signal 4? Message-ID: <199605280633.IAA15811@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960527200218.976E-100000@nike.efn.org> from John-Mark Gurney at "May 27, 96 08:09:57 pm"
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As John-Mark Gurney wrote: > what exactly is signal 4? SIGILL -- illegal instruction > often... if it is a normal command that hits a sig 4 it usally hangs the > machine after a few seconds... could it be a memory timing problem? or > possible something else? It is caused by the CPU executing an undefined opcode, so yep, it might be a memory (or a CPU) problem. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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