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Re: NULL dereference ? why not ?

On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 16:14 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
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> while i can see a valid use for allowing physical memory access to

The trivial valid use is: The hardware below defines it that way.

> address 0 (but only in an embedded system), i cannot think of one good

Intel Pentiums (and 80[34]86) have/had the interrupt table there (at
löeast in the realmode).

> reason to allow access to virtual address 0 in light of all the debug
> catching

	Bernd
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