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From: bruce@seismo.gps.caltech.edu (Bruce Worden)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Crash a RISC machine from user-mode code
Summary: Won't crash under SunOS 4.1
Message-ID: <1990Aug13.173208.24799@laguna.ccsf.caltech.edu>
Date: 13 Aug 90 17:32:08 GMT
References: <1990Aug13.124707.246@dg-rtp.dg.com>
Sender: bruce@seismo.gps.caltech.edu (Bruce Worden)
Organization: California Institute of Technology, CA
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In article <1990Aug13.124707.246@dg-rtp.dg.com> trawick@bigbird.rtp.dg.com () writes:
>I tried crashme on a DG Aviion which is based on the Motorola 88100.
>The system was running DG/UX 4.30.  I compiled it with (Gnu) cc.
>Crashme reports catching 25 signals before it terminates.  It
>certainly doesn't crash the machine.

Likewise here on Sun 4's running under 4.1.  The program caught 30 signals 
and then hung. A simple ^C killed it.

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Bruce Worden                            bruce@seismo.gps.caltech.edu
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