Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!portal!atari!apratt
From: apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Invalid pointer addresses
Keywords: NULL, pointer
Message-ID: <1167@atari.UUCP>
Date: 8 Sep 88 19:38:14 GMT
References: <12088@steinmetz.ge.com>
Reply-To: apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt)
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Organization: Atari (US) Corporation, Sunnyvale, California
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In article <12088@steinmetz.ge.com> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP 
(bill davidsen) writes:
> 
>   I recently proofread a manual which stated that even calculating the
> value of an invalid address could cause a memory fault.

I suppose that a word-addressing machine could cause a memory fault when
you try to put an odd address in an address register:

	register int *bar = (int *)1;	/* address fault */

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