Date: Wed, 06 Mar 96 17:41:38 -0500 From: Dave Boynton <dboynton@clark.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: FAQ erroneous Message-ID: <199603062248.RAA07920@mail.Clark.Net>
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Answer 7.5 of the FAQ seems to suggest that the most common cause of
signal 11 errors is faulty memory. Anyone who knows unix, knows that
segmentation violations are caused by dereferencing an invalid pointer,
by accessing beyond the end of your process' allocated memory, or
possibly by writing over your stack and returning to an invalid address.
To suggest to possibly novice users that all of their signal 11
errors are due to faulty memory is a disservice to the FreeBSD community,
and may prevent users from sending otherwise valid bug reports in which
involve segmentation violations. Perhaps that's why I'm experiencing a
bug involving signal 11 with both version 2.05-RELEASE and 2.1-RELEASE on
two different machines and the same program - no one sent in a bug report
because they thought it was their memory!
Dave Boynton
dboynton@clark.net
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