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From: Chris.Gehlker@p12.f56.n114.z1.fidonet.org (Chris Gehlker)
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Subject: RE: Why am I getting bus-error in think C debugger?
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Date: 20 Nov 90 13:40:49 GMT
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bach@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Baskaran Subramaniam) writes:

> I am new to programming in Think C.  Could someone tell me what a bus-error
> means?  When I try to step through a test program (which runs without
> giving any error outside the debugger) I get a bus-error. Why?

Bus error means trying to read or write something from an address
without real memory. Your probobly trying to look at something
that referenced by pointer before the pointer is initialized.

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