Re: bus error

From:
James Kanze <james.kanze@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Tue, 29 Jul 2008 01:03:31 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:
<2c9cede7-244c-4039-a955-246d0dd99693@79g2000hsk.googlegroups.com>
On Jul 28, 2:35 pm, puzzlecracker <ironsel2...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Jul 28, 7:57 am, Nick Keighley <nick_keighley_nos...@hotmail.com>
wrote:

On 28 Jul, 09:05, xyz <lavanyaredd...@gmail.com> wrote:

I am getting a "bus Error" in my program.
My simulation should run for 20 min..but i am getting bus error after
10 min of my simulation....
if this is the case please tell the reason for the bus error ...and
how to resolve this ??


use a debugger on the core dump


Are you sure that core dump would reveal the issue? It's not
the segmentation fault, which is typically caused by a bad
pointer or some undefined behavior in the code. Bus Error is
typically caused by hardware, meaning that your code could be
invoking a low level functionality.

Reference:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_error


Did you read the "reference" you're quoting. One of the most
common cases of a bus error is an unaligned access. (Despite
what the article says, on most machines today, trying to access
inexistant memory results in a segment violation, and not a bus
error.)

Whatever the reason for the core dump, however, the core file is
the same.

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