From: Garrett Mitchener <wgm2@acpub.duke.edu>
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  Date: 11 Feb 1999 12:42:18 -0500

Re: bus error

Tim Bain <tpb2@duke.edu> writes:

> Can anyone tell me what would cause a bus error?  It's
> been showing up at wierd times, and I'd like to know
> what it means and why it happens...
> 
> Thanks.
> Tim

A bus error and a segmentation fault both indicate that your program
accessed memory that didn't belong to it, and it most likely dumped
core.  You most likely have a pointer problem somewhere.  You can use
a debugger, open the core file, call up the stack trace, and see where
it is.

	-- Garrett :-)