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BoA · 07-25-2002, 02:43 PM

Now, in "English"...
Ok... What the display is telling you is: at memory location 0x00000009 there occurred an Executive Bad Access error of the type Kernel Protection Failure.

What this says is that code running from location 0x00000009 (or 10 byte past the start of memory) attempted to access memory that is protected from that access by the program current running. As a result, the Operating System's Executive is declaring an error and flushing the program as it is unable to meaningfully continue processing it.

In looking at the error again... the at value could be the address that the program was trying to access, rather than the program counter. This would make more sense but be somewhat less informative to a developer (IMHO). I haven't done enough code with OS X yet to have caused this specific error to occur... so, I haven't spent the time to learn the specifics of the syntax. But, in general context of writing code for Protected Operating Systems... I've seen the same type of error more times than I could ever hope to count. So, the general context I'm relating is valid...

07-25-2002, 02:43 PM	#12 (permalink)
BoA Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Issaquah, WA Posts: 1,621 Credits: 482	Now, in "English"... Ok... What the display is telling you is: at memory location 0x00000009 there occurred an Executive Bad Access error of the type Kernel Protection Failure. What this says is that code running from location 0x00000009 (or 10 byte past the start of memory) attempted to access memory that is protected from that access by the program current running. As a result, the Operating System's Executive is declaring an error and flushing the program as it is unable to meaningfully continue processing it. In looking at the error again... the at value could be the address that the program was trying to access, rather than the program counter. This would make more sense but be somewhat less informative to a developer (IMHO). I haven't done enough code with OS X yet to have caused this specific error to occur... so, I haven't spent the time to learn the specifics of the syntax. But, in general context of writing code for Protected Operating Systems... I've seen the same type of error more times than I could ever hope to count. So, the general context I'm relating is valid... __________________ Bo... <span style=\'color:navy\'><span style=\'font-family:courier\'>SELECT * FROM users WHERE clue > 0;</span> <span style=\'color:green\'>0 Rows Returned.</span></span>