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Date:      Wed, 18 Aug 1999 18:30:50 -0700
From:      Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net>
Cc:        Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org>, Richard Cownie <tich@ma.ikos.com>, Alex Zepeda <garbanzo@hooked.net>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, tich@par28.ma.ikos.com
Subject:   Re: SIGBUS [was Re: gdb] 
Message-ID:  <199908190130.SAA17301@rah.star-gate.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 18 Aug 1999 20:50:05 EDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.990818204824.20420G-100000@cygnus.rush.net> 

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> On 18 Aug 1999, Joel Ray Holveck wrote:
> 
> > > (gdb) run
> > > Starting program: /tmp/./sieve 
> > > Program received signal SIGBUS, Bus error.
> > 
> > That reminds me.  I thought that SIGBUS meant byte-alignment errors.
> > What does it mean on FreeBSD/x86?
> 
> Another possible source for SIGBUS should be generated when accessing
> a mmap'd region past the end of a file.
> 

The boehm garbage collector  is trying to find the memory limit so I guess
in FreeBSD is going to get a SIGBUS.

In linux they get SIGV


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 Amancio Hasty
 hasty@rah.star-gate.com




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