Anybody run CRASHME on ALPHA yet?

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From: George J. Carrette
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 16:00

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Has anybody hacked CRASHME (execute a string of random bytes as code)
for ALPHA? Doing just a compile (had to #include <processes.h>) on
the version 1.8 that was distributed to vmsnet.sources and comp.sources.unix
results in a program that only causes a single kind of error.

   $ crashme 1000 666 10
   Crashme: (c) Copyright 1990, 1991 George J. Carrette
   Version: 1.8 27-SEP-1991
   crashme 1000 666 10
   Badboy at 2971960. 0x2D5938
   try 0
   Got signal 10 bus error
   Barfed

It seems that all you will see is "Got signal 10 bus error" no matter
how many times you let it rip.

Probable reason is that you have to do certain things in ALPHA
(well, on VAX you should also do certainly things, technically, but
in practice it isn't as important) in order to be able to execute data as code.

-gjc

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From: gjc@mitech.com (George J. Carrette)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.alpha
Subject: Anybody run CRASHME on ALPHA yet?
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Date: 14 Dec 92 16:00:40 GMT
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