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Article #32033Bomb list
From: Steven Grimm
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 1988 16:43
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 1988 16:43
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Here's a list of what the various numbers of bombs mean...
1 - Impossible. If you get 1 bomb, take your ST to a repair shop.
2 - Bus error. This means you have tried to access memory outside the
computer's valid address space (or tried to access a protected area
in user mode).
3 - Address error. This usually results from doing a word or long
operation on an odd byte boundary.
4 - Illegal instruction. You figure it out.
5 - Divide by 0. Usually generated by the divs and divu instructions,
though if I recall correctly some others can cause it as well.
6 - CHK instruction trap. If a chk instruction returns an illegal value,
this trap is executed. Chk is actually pretty dumb, in my opinion,
unless you're using Pascal.
7 - TRAPV instruction. You get this by executing a trapv instruction
when the overflow bit is set. Most programs don't use trapv, so this
one shouldn't pop up much.
8 - Privilege violation. This one appears when a supervisor-only instruction
is encountered in user mode.
9 - Trace. If you've got the trace bit set, this trap will occur after
each instruction. Great for debuggers.
10 - Line-A. You shouldn't get this, as it's the interface Atari uses to get
to graphics routines.
11 - Line-F. This is supposed to be a hook for math coprocessors, but Atari
(DRI?) used it for GEM instead. I would have preferred a coprocessor.
The others are pretty much undefined; if you get one, something weird is
going on. From 32 to 47 bombs mean that you made a trap call whose vector
wasn't set.
Note that the number of bombs is equivalent to the 68000 exception number.
Hope this helps people.
-Steve
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