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- From: karl@ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: deref NULL but no core dump on aix 3.1 ??
- Message-ID: <1992Sep01.215020.6455@ima.isc.com>
- Date: 1 Sep 92 21:50:20 GMT
- Article-I.D.: ima.1992Sep01.215020.6455
- References: <1yty#5a@rpi.edu>
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- In article <1yty#5a@rpi.edu> fitzgb@mml0.meche.rpi.edu (Brian Fitzgerald) writes:
- >Why does this incorrect not dump core on an rs6000 running aix3.1 (but
- >it does on a sun3).
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- If a program dumps core, something is wrong. The converse is not true.
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- Trapping for null-pointer dereference is a convenient debugging aid, but
- not all systems do it, alas.
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- Karl W. Z. Heuer (karl@ima.isc.com or uunet!ima!karl), The Walking Lint
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