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List:       hpux-devtools
Subject:    Re: HPUX-DEVTOOLS: please help me in interpreting siginfo_t
From:       Srikanth Sankaran <srikanth () cup ! hp ! com>
Date:       2003-04-24 13:16:57
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> Hi,
> 
> Please help me in analysing the below output.
> 
	man 5 signal talks about this.

> 1) If Iam right then signal number is 11 then it is SIGSEGV ie Segmentation
> violation, and signal number 10 then it is _SIGBUS ie bus error. If Iam
> right about the signal number, then under what cases bus error raises.
> 
	One frequent cause of bus error is is misaligned memory access due
to a bad pointer.

> 2) In siginfo_t, is si_code represents cause of signal, if so Please help me
> in interpreting the reason why.

	This is described in signal(5). Also take a look at 
/usr/include/sys/siginfo.h

> 3) In siginfo_t, the si_addr represents what and pls interpret for my
> output? 
> 
	The address of the faulting instruction.

Srikanth.
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