Hi,

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 12:55:23AM -0800, Eninja wrote:
> Either way, I'd hate to bust your bubble and this is the last time I'll say 
> this, SegV exceptions in IOS are always caused by software bugs. 

You don't seem to understand anything about hardware failure modes.

If you have a bad RAM that will change a pointer value for you *without*
triggering a RAM parity error (because it's on a platform that has no
ECC/parity, like 'early 7200 NPEs'), and the software uses that pointer,
and accesses a bad memory location *because the RAM corrupted the pointer*,
how can the resulting SegV be "always a software bug"?

gert
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