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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
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Date: 1 Dec 88 18:47:38 GMT
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>> 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]