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- From: epang@fraser.sfu.ca (Eugene Pang)
- Subject: Re: line f trap <- what?
- Message-ID: <epang.712480040@sfu.ca>
- Keywords: library
- Sender: news@sfu.ca
- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- References: <epang.712299233@sfu.ca> <OcCqr*G00@ro-chp.UUCP>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 07:07:20 GMT
- Lines: 15
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- chopps@ro-chp.UUCP (Chris Hopps) writes:
-
- >In article <epang.712299233@sfu.ca>, Eugene Pang writes:
- >> It's an illegal instruction.
-
- >The reason is either:
-
- > 4) blowing out the PC, very hard to get this one, you have to be doing some
- > serious asm stuff, and then you would know what would cause the
- > illegal instruction.
-
- Actually, blowing the PC is actually pretty easy--just overflow your stack
- and after a few context switches...boom. If it's occurring with a "Load"
- requester, the cause could be the program's stack usage is too tight. The
- 1.3 RKM, says dos.library needs about 1500 bytes of stack...more on 2.04.
-