From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 15 19:18:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA07901 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 19:18:40 -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 TAA07856 for ; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 19:18:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joelh@gnu.org) Received: from detlev.UUCP (tex-120.camalott.com [208.229.74.120]) by mail.camalott.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA20679; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 21:20:16 -0500 Received: (from joelh@localhost) by detlev.UUCP (8.9.1/8.9.1) id VAA04311; Tue, 15 Sep 1998 21:18:08 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from joelh) Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 21:18:08 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199809160218.VAA04311@detlev.UUCP> To: Alfred Perlstein CC: Joel Ray Holveck , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Subject: Re: Catching SIGSEGV From: Joel Ray Holveck 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. > (i posted that after 24hours of coding / fighting a bad fbsd install) I understand. > anyhow, the OS was BSD, and it was the VAX that it was done on? Yes. 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