Yes - a segfault if the pointer is not valid and a bus error if the pointer is valid but not aligned to the pointer size (32 or 64 bit depending on how it is compiled).
Ian -----Original Message----- From: Jan-Åke Larsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 May 2006 17:08 To: Ian Brown Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ft] Segfault in FT_Get_Name_Index, Solaris 9, FreeType 2.1.8+ Ian Brown wrote: > On the SPARC architecture, you can only access 16 bit values on 16 > bit address boundaries, 32 bit values on 32 bit address boundaries > etc. Yep: But dereferencing a bogus pointer would sometimes cause a bus error, sometimes a segfault, I'd imagine. /JÅ -- ceci n'est pas une .signature _______________________________________________ Freetype mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype
