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- From: "bill dehaan" <bill.dehaan@canrem.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
- Subject: trap0008
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.1481.4179@dosgate>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 21:41:03 EST
- Reply-To: "bill dehaan" <bill.dehaan@canrem.com>
- Distribution: comp
- Organization: Canada Remote Systems
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- In article <terryk.711221914#cc.gatech.edu> terryk@terminus.gatech.edu (Terry Ka
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- TK>Can anybody tell me what trap 8 is? (Haven't rec'd my redbooks yet!)
- TK>I suspect this is a memory problem... especially since this started
- TK>with trap 2s at the same location.
-
- Yeah, I can tell you. Trap-8 is a real pain. It is a trap within the
- trap handler. Essentially, you had a bug which generated a trap (C,D, or
- 2, most likely). When the OS/2 trap handler caught the error, *IT* then
- trapped. This is one of those things that should *NEVER* happen, and is
- usually the result of bad ram or a screwed up CPU. We were testing an
- application a few months ago which ran on 8 machines perfectly, but on
- the 9th machine always trap-8'ed. Replacing system memory removed the
- problem (thank god).
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