From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
Message-Id: <9606121556.AA17909@clio.rice.edu>
Subject: Re: Printer error
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il (Eli Zaretskii)
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 10:56:23 -0600 (CDT)
Cc: j DOT aldrich6 AT genie DOT com, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960612163238.7368B-100000@is> from "Eli Zaretskii" at Jun 12, 96 04:37:11 pm
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> How about vice versa: is every Page Fault with error=6 necessarily a 
> bad pointer dereference, or are there other important cases?

99% of the time it's a bad pointer.  Under non-CWSDPMI providers I don't
know of any other cause than a bad pointer.  Under CWSDPMI, you can also
see this if you didn't lock your hardware interrupt handlers, or if you
hit the internal stack space bug (only for big programs) ;-P