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Re: [Help-smalltalk] SEGF in gst_initialize


From: Paolo Bonzini
Subject: Re: [Help-smalltalk] SEGF in gst_initialize
Date: Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:44:13 +0100
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On 11/01/2009 12:09 AM, Roland Plüss wrote:
I can understand that but is it not bad to begin with to cause a SEGF in
the first place? It's just that when my apps cause a SEGF at any place
red flags come up immediatly.

If you are asking the OS to report writes into the "old generation" by write-protecting pages, the OS has no way to do so but raising a SIGSEGV (or similar exception under Mac OS/Mach and Windows).

Again, that's not a real problem. When a SIGSEGV is really an error and is turned into a SIGABRT, the backtrace is totally recognizable and you get the fault address in the backtrace.

Paolo




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