On Monday 09 June 2003 09:22 am, brett holcomb wrote:
> Just because Windows doesn't seg fault doesn't mean it's
> not broken.  The compling, etc. we do with Gentoo is far
> harder on a system then Windows.  In addition Windows may
> not tell you - it just gives some strange error.
>
> 99.999% of seg faults are hardware.  There is a definitive
> reference on this but I don't have it where I can get to
> it.

Whoa!!!  I suspect that your source is horribly mistaken!  I *might* believe 
that 99% of SIGBUS errors are caused by hardware, but I have seen literally 
thousands of SIGSEGV dumps, and to the best of my knowledge every one of them 
was caused by software problems.  In fact, I *know* that many of them were 
because I have fixed more than a few of the memory problems that caused the 
SIGSEGV in the first place...

Josh


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