Bus Error (core dumped) due to SIGBUS signal
 

Hi,

Please note the behaviour of this program. I know that SIGBUS comes because of address mis-alignments in read/write acesses.

could anybody please explain the behaviour of the following program:

void main()
{
short a;

scanf("%d",&a);
printf("\n a= ",a);
}

case one:
chattan:~/junk]$ a.out
2 //input given
Bus Error (core dumped)
chattan:~/junk]$


case two:
chattan:~/junk]$ a.out
a //input given

a=
chattan:~/junk]$

You would probably have better luck with this on the Programming board.