Bus Error And Segmentation Fault
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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 a process is trying to access memory that the
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CPU cannot physically address: an invalid address for the address bus, hence the name. In c error segmentation fault modern use on most architectures these are much rarer than segmentation faults, which occur primarily due to memory access violations: problems in runtime error segmentation fault the logical address or permissions. On POSIX-compliant platforms, bus errors usually result in the SIGBUS signal being sent to the process that caused the error. SIGBUS can also be caused by any general device fault that
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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 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
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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 (the x86 platform being a notable exception). For example, if multi-byte accesses must be 16 bit-aligned, addresses (given in bytes) at 0, 2, 4, 6, and so on would be considered aligned and therefore accessible, while addresses 1, 3, 5, and so on would be considered unaligned. Similarly, if multi-byte accesses must be 32-bit aligned, addresses 0, 4,
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view Printable view Export to Adobe Acrobat (PDF) Export to Microsoft Word Email this page Other pagesHome page Dashboard News Recent updates RSS feed builder Index Site map Labels Attachments index People Directory AccountLog in History History What does "Bus Error" or "Segmentation Fault" mean? These statements mean that there's a bug in the program. If you're able to consistently reproduce this bug in a piece of supported software, please submit a bug report using the "sendbug" command. If you're interested in learning more details and how to debug your own programs, read on. These errors often mean that the program was trying to access a memory location outside its address space. The computer detected this problem and sent a signal to your program, which caused it to abort. Things that cause bus errors and segmentation violations are typically out-of-bounds array references and/or references through uninitialized or mangled pointers. Look very closely in your program for bizarre things like that. A common example is: int c; scanf("%d", c); instead of the correct version: int c; scanf("%d", &c); There are a number of methods for finding out where the program went out of bounds. One method is to use printf() statements to determine how far the program is getting before it crashes, and to print out the contents of interesting variables. A more sophisticated method is using a debugger, such as "gdb". If you need to debug your program, you may want to enable a core dump. Usually, those two messages above would also have "(core dumped)" by them, indicating that the program wrote an image of its current memory into a file called "core" in that directory. Athena turned this off by default, since for most people "core" is just a waste of disk space. If you want to turn it back on again, type 'quota -v' and find out how many blocks (kilobytes) you have available in your quota. Then you can type, say: limit coredumpsize 100 .. to limit your core dump size to 100K for your current login. BE CAREFUL not to let yourself go over quota, as you would then not be able to create or edit files. You should delete the "core" file when you don't need it any more. To allow core dumps and still not have quota worries, you