What does "bus error" (signal 7) mean?

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From: Theodore Sternberg
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 00:00

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"Signal 7" is how one of my programs exits, and in gdb I am told "Program
received signal SIGBUS, Bus error".  This happens after some I/O
operations.  I know I'm being a little vague here, but would someone 
please tell me what "bus error" means, in a general way?

Many thanks!

Ted Sternberg
San Jose, California, USA

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Theodore Sternberg <strnbrg@rahul.net>

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