Re: Bug Report: Dereferencing a bad pointer

[Benjamin LaHaise]

On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 06:23:13PM -0500, David Chandler wrote:
> The following one-line C program, when compiled by gcc 2.96 without
> optimization, should produce a SIGSEGV segmentation fault (on a machine
> with 3 or less gigabytes of virtual memory, at least):
> 
>         int main() { int k  = *(int *)0xc0000000; }
> 
> However, it does not do so under 2.4.x -- it does cause a seg fault
> under
> 2.2.x kernels.

Works here running 2.4.13-ac8+bits.  Are you sure you didn't compile with 
optimization enabled?

		-ben