Exception 6

Joel Sherrill joel at OARcorp.com
Thu Apr 11 18:42:36 UTC 2002



Angelo Fraietta wrote:
> 
> I forgot to say I am using pc386dx bsp
> 
> Angelo Fraietta wrote:
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> > What could be causing an exception 6. I have looked in cpu.h and it
> > saya it is an illegal instruction.
> > What causes this type of fault?
> >

I think this means invalid instruction which likely means you have
corrupt code or jumped somewhere wrong.

Was the reported address inside or outside your program?

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