Re: Bus error

[Alex Romosan <romosan@adonis.lbl.gov>]

Tommy <tjm1@thorn.net> writes:

> If  programs crash with a " bus error" is that entirely a hardware
> issue?  I believe it is, but I just want to be sure.  Thanks
> 

no it's not. most of the time it is actually a software issue. it just
means the program was trying to access some garbage in memory (or
whatever).

--alex--

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