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To: scottl@ix.netcom.com (scott long)
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Subject: Re: Signal 10 Bus error????? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 06 Apr 95 06:08:32 PDT."
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Thu, 06 Apr 1995 06:20:07 -0700
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>In trying to get the latest snapshop Wine working under FreeBSD, I have 
>come across core dumps due to a Signal 10, Bus error.  What is this???  
>I didn't think that the Intel archetecture was too picky about 
>alignment.  Any info on what this is or what causes it would be GREATLY 
>appreciated.

   There are two main causes of SIGBUS. The first is a i386 general protection
fault and the second is a page protection fault (such as writing to a read
only part of memory). In the Wine case, I suspect the former.

-DG