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Learn more about hiring developers or posting ads with us Stack Overflow Questions Jobs Documentation Tags Users Badges Ask bus error vs segmentation fault Question x Dismiss Join the Stack Overflow Community Stack Overflow is a community of 4.7 million programmers, just like you, helping each other. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign how to solve bus error in linux up What is a bus error? up vote 155 down vote favorite 49 What does the "bus error" message mean, and how does it differ from a segfault? c unix segmentation-fault bus-error share|improve this question edited Oct 18 '15 at 10:44 Cool Guy 15.8k51952 asked Oct 17 '08 at 14:48 raldi 7,239216178 add a comment| 15 Answers 15 active oldest votes up
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vote 150 down vote accepted Bus errors are rare nowadays on x86 and occur when your processor cannot even attempt the memory access requested, typically: using a processor instruction with an address that does not satisfy its alignment requirements. Segmentation faults occur when accessing memory which does not belong to your process, they are very common and are typically the result of: using a pointer to something that was deallocated. using an uninitialized hence bogus pointer. using a null pointer. overflowing a buffer. PS: To be more precise this is not manipulating the pointer itself that will cause issues, it's accessing the memory it points to (dereferencing). share|improve this answer edited Oct 17 '08 at 15:18 answered Oct 17 '08 at 15:12 bltxd 5,70322336 52 They aren't rare; I'm just at Exercise 9 from How to Learn C the Hard Way and already encountered one... –11684 Mar 26 '13 at 20:12 5 Another cause of bus errors (on Linux anyway) is when the operating system can't back a virtual page with physical memory (e.g. low-memory conditions or out of huge pages when using h
challenged and removed. (July 2015) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) In computing, a bus error is a fault raised by hardware, notifying an operating system (OS) that bus error python a process is trying to access memory that the CPU cannot physically sigbus error linux address: an invalid address for the address bus, hence the name. In modern use on most architectures these are
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much rarer than segmentation faults, which occur primarily due to memory access violations: problems in the logical address or permissions. On POSIX-compliant platforms, bus errors usually result in the SIGBUS signal being http://stackoverflow.com/questions/212466/what-is-a-bus-error sent to the process that caused the error. SIGBUS can also be caused by any general device fault that the computer detects, though a bus error rarely means that the computer hardware is physically broken—it is normally caused by a bug in a program's source code.[citation needed] Bus errors may also be raised for certain other paging errors; see below. Contents 1 Causes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_error 1.1 Non-existent address 1.2 Unaligned access 1.3 Paging errors 2 Example 3 References Causes[edit] There are at least three main causes of bus errors: Non-existent address[edit] Software instructs the CPU to read or write a specific physical memory address. Accordingly, the CPU sets this physical address on its address bus and requests all other hardware connected to the CPU to respond with the results, if they answer for this specific address. If no other hardware responds, the CPU raises an exception, stating that the requested physical address is unrecognized by the whole computer system. Note that this only covers physical memory addresses. Trying to access an undefined virtual memory address is generally considered to be a segmentation fault rather than a bus error, though if the MMU is separate, the processor can't tell the difference. Unaligned access[edit] Most CPUs are byte-addressable, where each unique memory address refers to an 8-bit byte. Most CPUs can access individual bytes from each memory address, but they generally cannot access larger units (16 bits, 32 bits, 64 bits and so on) without these units being "aligned" to a specific boundary (