Invalid pointer addresses
Allan Pratt
apratt at atari.UUCP
Fri Sep 9 05:38:14 AEST 1988
In article <12088 at steinmetz.ge.com> davidsen at crdos1.UUCP
(bill davidsen) writes:
>
> I recently proofread a manual which stated that even calculating the
> value of an invalid address could cause a memory fault.
I suppose that a word-addressing machine could cause a memory fault when
you try to put an odd address in an address register:
register int *bar = (int *)1; /* address fault */
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