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Originally Posted by byteit101
ahhh! that would explain that! doesn't one love the power and the unsafeness of C/C++? (there's an easy virus: ((char*)0) = "CORRUPT THIS DATA!!!!";  ) |
Actually, if you're running as a normal process on a modern operating system, that will only crash the individual program that did the bad access. Like in Windows when you see "X has encountered a problem and needs to close... ", many times the reason it needs to close is because of bad memory accesses. On a *nix box you'll see something on the screen saying 'segmentation fault'.
Now of course, if you're running in the kernel and make a bad memory access, then the system will generally crash, since theres nothing to protect you there. Incidentally, our programs are running as a kernel module on the cRio...