On Sun, Aug 01, 1999 at 10:18:56AM +0200, Jonas Steverud wrote: > erasmo perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > does somebody knows what does "bus error" means and how can i get out of > > this? > > >From signal(5) on Solaris: > ---------8<---------- > Events directly caused by the execution of code by a thread, > such as a reference to an unmapped, protected, or bad memory > can generate SIGSEGV or SIGBUS; > ---------8<---------- > > How to stop it? Don't know. > I think these are results of programming bugs. On Solaris, the gcc compiler switch -Wcast-align should be used (and the source then corrected). From the manual "Using and Porting GNU CC"
-Wcast-align Warn whenever a pointer is cast such that the required alignment of the target is increased. For example, warn if a char * is cast to an int * on machines where integers can only be accessed at two- or four-byte boundaries. -
