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Date:      Tue, 15 Sep 1998 17:26:55 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com>
Cc:        "Ron G. Minnich" <rminnich@Sarnoff.COM>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Catching SIGSEGV
Message-ID:  <199809152226.RAA13470@detlev.UUCP>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980915123624.21829G-100000@bright.fx.genx.net>
References:   <Pine.BSF.3.96.980915123624.21829G-100000@bright.fx.genx.net>

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> there was an OS that did something funky to the first page of memory that
> allowed programmers to abuse the fact that it was null and accessable.
> many programs broke when the system was brought to a different
> archetecture.

You're using it.

Best,
joelh

-- 
Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org - http://www.wp.com/piquan
   Fourth law of programming:
   Anything that can go wrong wi
sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped

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