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From: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Crash a RISC machine from user-mode code:
Keywords: RISC
Message-ID: <17425@haddock.ima.isc.com>
Date: 15 Aug 90 23:50:53 GMT
References: <1990Aug13.053147.11714@laguna.ccsf.caltech.edu> <481@demott.COM> <1990Aug15.052856.28006@laguna.ccsf.caltech.edu>
Reply-To: karl@kelp.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
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In article <1990Aug15.052856.28006@laguna.ccsf.caltech.edu> bruce@seismo.gps.caltech.edu (Bruce Worden) writes:
>In article <481@demott.COM> kdq@demott.COM (Kevin D. Quitt) writes:
>>....  But when you try to stress the system, it's going to fail.
>
>[Disagree.]

Clarify.  Are you saying that (a) the `crashme' program never causes your
machine to crash, (b) such a crash does not constitute `failure', or (c) that
isn't what you count as `stressing the system'?

Karl W. Z. Heuer (karl@kelp.ima.isc.com or ima!kelp!karl), The Walking Lint