Re: [gentoo-user] Segmentation Fault Everywhere

[brett holcomb]

The 99.999% was poetic license and my figure - however the 
point is that from what I've seen and read most are 
hardware caused.  As one of the sources says - if you're 
using software that is debugged or in wide usage (as 
Gentoo, gcc, etc. is) it's probably hardware.  I've seen 
overheating cause it, bad motherboards, and of course bad 
memory.  If you're developing software and testing it then 
yes, you can have problems.  

When you say fixed memory problems - do you mean replaced 
physical memory or corrected a program problem with errant 
pointers, etc.?

On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 13:07:28 -0700
 Josh Helmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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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