C bug causes double fault

[David J Bell]

>In article <244 at tree.UUCP> zarquon at tree.UUCP (Erin Filbert) writes:
>>main()
>>{
>>	float x;
>>	printf("x = %d", x);
>>}
>
>You'll undoubtedly get a flood of responses correctly pointing out
>that conversion of a double (promoted float) argument according to
>an int format is incorrect.  Use %g or some such format specifier.
>
>The reason I'm posting this is so I can include a plea not to post
>questions like this to comp.unix.wizards.  That's what
>comp.unix.questions is for.  UNIX-WIZARDS is for "wizardly"
>discussions (not that it gets very many, but that's what it's
>inteded for).  Thanks.

OK, *WIZARDS*, now answer Erin's real question; I'm sure the original
error of printing the float )OK, double...) argument as int was recognized.

Now, why does the fragile compiler bring down the system?