Hi,
> Bus Error is very common and most of the times I get this error is because
> of address alignment problems. For example, the int data type should start
Agreed. But IIRC on intel hardware (x86) unaligned accesses only
cause a performance hit (processor/pipeline stalls) but no faults. Do the
newer processors fault (bus error) when you do an unaligned access??
Another place I know where bus errors occur is on M68K based boxes
(and may be powerpc??). When you try to access a memory location (physical
bus address) that doesn't exist, it results in bus error.
AFAIK neither of these things are applicable to intel x86.
Regards,
Kedar.
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