Xref: utzoo comp.lang.c:14459 comp.sys.m68k:1033 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tektronix!tekecs!frip!andrew From: andrew@frip.gwd.tek.com (Andrew Klossner) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.sys.m68k Subject: Re: Messing with 0 ptr on m68020 & sys V / 68 Message-ID: <10686@tekecs.TEK.COM> Date: 1 Dec 88 18:47:38 GMT References: <784@clinet.FI> <208.nlunix6@orcenl.uucp> <534@auspex.UUCP> Sender: andrew@tekecs.TEK.COM Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville, Oregon Lines: 18 >> This "bug" has to be present for many of the utilities to run. > No, it doesn't. You can fix the utilities; that's what was done at Sun > for all the cases noted. You can fix the utilities, but you can't cause all your potential customers to fix their code before they try it on your system. >> Your OS vendor the has to allow you to read from address 0, > Sun doesn't allow it, and neither do some other vendors. To our delight. We get orders from customers whose VAX-developed, buggy code runs on our workstations but not on Suns. Perhaps Motorola is mining the same market opportunity. -=- Andrew Klossner (uunet!tektronix!hammer!frip!andrew) [UUCP] (andrew%frip.gwd.tek.com@relay.cs.net) [ARPA]