Differences between version 2 and predecessor to the previous major change of SIGBUS.
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| Newer page: | version 2 | Last edited on Monday, October 28, 2002 7:23:56 pm | by PerryLorier | Revert |
| Older page: | version 1 | Last edited on Friday, September 27, 2002 8:46:24 am | by PerryLorier | Revert |
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!!!Signal: Bus Error
-This signal is raised when your program accesses memory in an invalid way. This signal by default causes your program to terminate and dump core
+This signal is raised when your program accesses memory in an invalid way. This signal by default causes your program to terminate and dump core. Bus Errors octen occur when you access unaligned memory on a machine that doesn't support unaligned memory accesses. It can also occur if you access mmap(2)'d memory beyond the end of the file but within the region of the mmap(2).
