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1816.0. "Open: why is my little C program crashing the whole system?" by STAR::JKEENAN () Tue Apr 29 1997 13:56

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Name: arjang chinichian
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CPU Architecture: VAX and Alpha
Version: v 6.2
Questions: 

I wrote a 10 line c program and when I run it the program
crashed the whole system. and i mean the machine went down
we (with other developers) tried it three times it was, 
for sure, my program. we tried it on alpha and vax the same
machine went down.

how is this posiable?

is this a bug?

is there anywhere to report such a bug?

thanks
arjang