On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Tony Finch wrote:
> >> What do you mean by "something"?
> >
> >Some of the code. At least, that's what "Illegal instruction" suggests
> >to me.
>
> Since most systems (probably all the ones that exim runs on) make code
> unwritable, the most likely cause of this error is a wild jump caused
> either by an overwritten function pointer or by a return address on
> the stack being splatted.
Oh dear, I'm showing my age again. For most of my career the computers
that I programmed didn't have that nice feature...
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