> On 18 Aug 1999, Joel Ray Holveck wrote:
>
> > > (gdb) run
> > > Starting program: /tmp/./sieve
> > > Program received signal SIGBUS, Bus error.
> >
> > That reminds me. I thought that SIGBUS meant byte-alignment errors.
> > What does it mean on FreeBSD/x86?
>
> Another possible source for SIGBUS should be generated when accessing
> a mmap'd region past the end of a file.
>
The boehm garbage collector is trying to find the memory limit so I guess
in FreeBSD is going to get a SIGBUS.
In linux they get SIGV
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