Harvard vs. vonNeuman

Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner spc at conman.org
Tue Sep 28 23:26:41 CDT 2004


It was thus said that the Great Cameron Kaiser once stated:
> 
> > Okay, figured out why my code didn't work, and it's not due to writing to
> > the wrong location (although I suspect that still is a problem) but that
> > under Unix the code pages are marked read-only so of course it core dumped.
> 
> I wonder if this is true in Winders. Seriously -- is it?

  It may be (a function of the Intel processor), but you can get around this
my mapping those pages elsewhere with read/write access (well, in ring 0).  

  -spc (But I'm not terribly interested in the answer for Windows ... )






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