Solved 4.2BSD panic trap 9 problem on VAX 11/785

Griff Smith ggs at ulysses.UUCP
Tue Aug 13 04:37:31 AEST 1985


> 
>     The "fix" is to insert enough noops to push the probe ... in locore.s ...
>     down past the start of a new page.  If that works, let us all know . .
> 
No!  The fix is to insert a ".space n" directive immediately before
the function in locore.s that is causing the problem.  Noops take
time!  The probe is in the middle of a commonly called system function,
don't give it lead shoes.
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