From owner-freebsd-current Wed Aug 18 17:42:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from cygnus.rush.net (cygnus.rush.net [209.45.245.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0993D14F51 for ; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 17:42:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@rush.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by cygnus.rush.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA13933; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 20:50:07 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 20:50:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Joel Ray Holveck Cc: Amancio Hasty , Richard Cownie , Alex Zepeda , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, tich@par28.ma.ikos.com Subject: Re: SIGBUS [was Re: gdb] In-Reply-To: <86pv0lvtld.fsf@detlev.UUCP> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@rush.net|bright@wintelcom.net] systems administrator and programmer Wintelcom - http://www.wintelcom.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message