From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 15 16:16:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA03353 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 16:16:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.camalott.com (mail.camalott.com [208.203.140.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA03317 for ; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 16:16:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joelh@gnu.org) Received: from detlev.UUCP (tex-107.camalott.com [208.229.74.107]) by mail.camalott.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA01407; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 17:29:03 -0500 Received: (from joelh@localhost) by detlev.UUCP (8.9.1/8.9.1) id RAA13470; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 17:26:55 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from joelh) Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 17:26:55 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199809152226.RAA13470@detlev.UUCP> To: Alfred Perlstein CC: "Ron G. Minnich" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Subject: Re: Catching SIGSEGV From: Joel Ray Holveck Reply-to: joelh@gnu.org References: Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > there was an OS that did something funky to the first page of memory that > allowed programmers to abuse the fact that it was null and accessable. > many programs broke when the system was brought to a different > archetecture. You're using it. Best, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org - http://www.wp.com/piquan Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message