> Technically, it means the program counter got an illegal address
> in it. 

  One of the ways this could happen is via a buffer overflow, which 
may potentially be exploitable (although exploiting it will be much 
harder than making it bus error).

David Gillett


On 12 Jun 2001, at 12:59, Dave Horsfall wrote:

> On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Gerardo Soto wrote:
> 
> > "System restarted by bus error at PC 0x30C5BD4, address 0xE24230"
> 
> Almost certainly a hardware/software fault; report it to your vendor.
> 
> > What does bus error mean ?  I would deeply appreciate any light regarding
> > this matter.
> 
> Technically, it means the program counter got an illegal address in it.
> 
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