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From: amoss@huji.ac.il (Amos Shapira)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: What machines core dump on deref of NULL?
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Date: 24 Jul 90 14:59:58 GMT
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applix@runxtsa.runx.oz.au (Andrew Morton) writes:

>>
>>       I recently found to my delight that the Sparc architecture
>>  core dumps if a NULL pointer is dereferenced, and I want to find
>>  other systems that do this.  [ stuff deleted ]
>>       What other machines do this?  I know that the 3B2 and 3B15
>>  don't do it, and neither does AT&T UNIX on the 386.

I missed most of the postings in this matter, but just this morning I found
that Personal Iris, based on MIPS 2000 or something similar, also core dumps
on NULL derefference.

Hope this help,
Amos Shapira
amoss@huji.ac.il.bitnet