Bus error vs Segmentation fault

Question

Difference between a bus error and a segmentation fault? Can it happen that a program gives a seg fault and stops for the first time and for the second time it may give a bu

Answer 1

This would be a dup of What is a bus error?, if it weren't for the

Can it happen that a program gives a seg fault and stops for the first time and for the second time it may give a bus error and exit ?

part of the question. You should be able to answer this for yourself with the information found here.

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Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
-- Albert Einstein

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Of course, taking the question literally...

#include 
#include 
#include 
#include 
int main() {
    srand(time(NULL));
    if (rand() % 2)
        kill(getpid(), SIGBUS);
    else
        kill(getpid(), SIGSEGV);
    return 0;
}

Tada, a program that can exit with a segmentation fault on one run and exit with a bus error on another run.