rickc@telly.on.ca (Rick Copley) (03/21/91)
I recently downloaded some manpages for some utilities I have on the system.
They were in the format that nroff -man makes readable (I'm not sure what you
would call the format but).
I mistakenly typed in:
nroff -man sz (sz being the binary executable program in the same directory
as the manpage listed below)
instead of nroff -man sz.1
I got "floating point execption" twice on my screen, and the entire system
crashed with a "PANIC: floating point execption" on the system console.
The funny part is, I called NCR to complain and to this day they "have not been
able to duplicate the problem". I have not tried it again, myself, but since
I have changed a few O/S releases and some other stuff, I wonder if it would
happen again.
Oh yeah, the machine is an NCR Tower 32/800 running SYS V r2 (NCR# 01.03.01)
unix based on AT&T unix (NCR has mucked around with stuff to get it to run
on this multi-processor piece of junk).
rickc@telly.on.ca
--
#include <sys/types.h>
main()
{
typedef long lotsa;
lotsa *fun;
time_t in;
fun = (lotsa)hack(in);
}