Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ut-ngp.UTEXAS Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!prls!amdimage!amdcad!amd!vecpyr!lll-crg!mordor!ut-sally!ut-ngp!kjm From: kjm@ut-ngp.UTEXAS (Ken Montgomery) Newsgroups: net.arch Subject: Re: uninitialized data Message-ID: <2440@ut-ngp.UTEXAS> Date: Mon, 30-Sep-85 18:43:34 EDT Article-I.D.: ut-ngp.2440 Posted: Mon Sep 30 18:43:34 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 4-Oct-85 04:35:25 EDT References: <436@uvm-cs.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: UTexas Computation Center, Austin, Texas Lines: 15 > Laex Colvin asks about an architecture that traps on using uniniitialized >data. The CDC 6000 series architecture does sort of. An option to the loader >will cause all data locations to be filled with a bit pattern representing >"indefinite" which the CPU will choke on. [Stephen J. Hartley] Unfortunately, this only works for floating point. The non-floating-point arithmetic units will have no problem with this pattern. -- The above viewpoints are mine. They are unrelated to those of anyone else, including my cat and my employer. Ken Montgomery "Shredder-of-hapless-smurfs" ...!{ihnp4,allegra,seismo!ut-sally}!ut-ngp!kjm [Usenet, when working] kjm@ngp.UTEXAS.EDU [Internet, if the nameservers are up] Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com