Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 21:18:08 -0500 (CDT) From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com> Cc: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Catching SIGSEGV Message-ID: <199809160218.VAA04311@detlev.UUCP> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980915215743.3879A-100000@bright.fx.genx.net> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980915215743.3879A-100000@bright.fx.genx.net>
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>>> 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
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