Does there exist a surefire, cross platform way to reproduce a SIGBUS?

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This question is out of pure curiosity; personally I have seen this signal being raised, but only rarely so.

I asked on the C chatroom whether there was a reliable way to reproduce it. And on this very room, user @Antti Haapala found one. At least on Linux x86_64 systems... And after some fiddling around, the same pattern was reproducible with three languages -- however, only on x86_64 Linux based systems since these were the only systems this could be tested on... Here's how:

C

$ cat t.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>

int main () {
        int fd = open ("empty", O_RDONLY);
        char *p = mmap (0, 40960, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0);
        printf("%c\n", p[4096]);
}
$ :>empty
$ gcc t.c
$ ./a.out
Bus error (core dumped)

Python

$ cat t.py
import mmap
import re
import os

with open('empty', 'wb') as f:
    f.write(b'a' * 4096)

with open('empty', 'rb') as f:
    # memory-map the file, size 0 means whole file
    mm = mmap.mmap(f.fileno(), 0, prot=mmap.PROT_READ)

    os.system('truncate --size 0 empty')

    b'123' in mm
$ python t.py
Bus error (core dumped)

Java

$ cat Test.java
import java.io.IOException;
import java.nio.MappedByteBuffer;
import java.nio.channels.FileChannel;
import java.nio.file.Files;
import java.nio.file.Path;
import java.nio.file.Paths;
import java.nio.file.StandardOpenOption;
import java.util.Random;

public final class Test
{
    private static final int SIZE = 4096;
    private static final Path VICTIM = Paths.get("/tmp/somefile");

    public static void main(final String... args)
        throws IOException
    {
        // Create our victim; delete it first if it already exsists
        Files.deleteIfExists(VICTIM);
        Files.createFile(VICTIM);

        final Random rnd = new Random();
        final byte[] contents = new byte[SIZE];
        rnd.nextBytes(contents);
        Files.write(VICTIM, contents);

        try (
            final FileChannel channel = FileChannel.open(VICTIM,
                StandardOpenOption.READ, StandardOpenOption.WRITE);
        ) {
            final MappedByteBuffer buffer
                = channel.map(FileChannel.MapMode.READ_ONLY, 0L, SIZE);
            channel.truncate(0L);
            buffer.get(rnd.nextInt(SIZE));
        }
    }
}
$ javac Test.java
$ strace -ff -o TRACE java Test
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.InternalError: a fault occurred in a recent unsafe memory access operation in compiled Java code
    at Test.main(Test.java:35)
fge@erwin:~/tmp$ grep -w SIGBUS TRACE.*
TRACE.15850:rt_sigaction(SIGBUS, NULL, {SIG_DFL, [], 0}, 8) = 0
TRACE.15850:rt_sigaction(SIGBUS, {0x7fe3db71b480, ~[RTMIN RT_1], SA_RESTORER|SA_RESTART|SA_SIGINFO, 0x7fe3dc5d7d10}, {SIG_DFL, [], 0}, 8) = 0
TRACE.15850:--- SIGBUS {si_signo=SIGBUS, si_code=BUS_ADRERR, si_addr=0x7fe3dc9fb5aa} ---

Again: all the examples above are only on Linux x86_64 systems; I have nothing else at my disposal.

Would there be a way to reproduce this on other systems?

Side questions: if the examples above were reproducible on systems not having SIGBUS, what would happen?

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