[ale] Bus Error blather

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From:
http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?query=bus+error

bus error

A fatal failure in the execution of a machine language instruction
resulting from the processor detecting an anomalous condition on its
bus. Such conditions include invalid address alignment (accessing a
multi-byte number at an odd address), accessing a physical address that
does not correspond to any device, or some other device-specific
hardware error. A bus error triggers a processor-level exception which
Unix translates into a "SIGBUS" signal which, if not caught, will
terminate the current process.

And from:
http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?query=seg+fault

segmentation fault

An error in which a running Unix program attempts to access memory not
allocated to it and terminates with a segmentation violation error and
usually a core dump. 

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