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Re: World Wide What?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Elliot Lee)
Mon Nov 4 16:21:30 1996
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 16:07:49 -0500 (EST)
From: Elliot Lee <sopwith@cuc.edu>
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In-Reply-To: <199611042039.VAA16942@minnie.xos.nl>
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On Mon, 4 Nov 1996, Jos Vos wrote:
> > I used to get Bus Errors with Netscape 3.0, and it turned out
> > to be because of the X server i was using... it was the VGA16 ...
> > now I am using a high resolution, 16 bit color server and netscape 3.0
> > works better than in any other platform i've seen (Win95, Digital Unix,
> > SGIs, HP's, etc...)
>
> Not really... Netscape 3.0 (w.r.t. Java) is NOT working fine. Have you
Java under netscape has bugs that show up only with newer libc's, such as
the 5.3.12 that comes with Red Hat. Netscape is aware of the problems (I
think?) but hasn't fixed them yet.
In addition, the Bus Errors that you get with netscape are in fact
netscape trying to mask its errors. If you strace the netscape process,
you will notice that it receives a segmentation fault signal, and then
kills itself with SIGBUS.
While I myself like netscape, it's very bad programming to try and blame
the hardware (on other architectures, SIGBUS is generated by the hardware,
on the Intel the hardware is incapable of generating it) for a
programmer's error.
IOW, bug netscape to fix it ;-)
-- Elliot
A: "Talk about stupidity!"
B: "Who, you?"
A: "No, me!"
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