[ale] Bus Error blather

[rbutera at ece.gatech.edu (Robert Butera)]

"Bus Error" is a big catch-all with little useful meaning, at least in my
opinion.  In my mind I usually thing "Seg Fault."

For example, at some point in my past, the following code generated a "bus
error" under AIX:

  double foo ;
  scanf("%f",&foo) ;

unless you replaced the above with "%lf."  Works fine (I recall) under
Linux. YMMV




Robert Butera, Assistant Professor
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences	
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30332-0363 USA
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