[vox-tech] what is a bus error

William Kendrick vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Tue, 8 Jan 2002 12:44:25 -0800


On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 11:07:07AM -0800, Ken Bloom wrote:
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>  
>   long a = *(reinterpret_cast<long*> (x+1)); 
>   // there are no guarantees about the alignment of the second byte of data
>   // so we could get a bus error here

Konqueror/Embeded 'bus error's on my Zaurus.  I've heard it's a common
problem right now, and that there's a "byte alignment" setting you can
give your system by cat'ing a certain value (0, 1 or 2) into some file
in /proc...

Don't ask me more, I don't know.  FYI, it didn't work. :)
(Which is fine... Opera works well enough for me on the Z :) )

-bill!