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Re: Somw questions [ MAYBE OFFTOPIC ]
> A NULL pointer is just yet another invalid address. There is no special
> test for a NULL pointer. Most probably for example (char *)0x12345678 will
> be invalid as a pointer as well and treated the same. The CPU detects this
> when the TLB doesn't have a translation valid for the access being attempted.
Which is why you can do -=*fun*=- things such as:
fd = open("/dev/kmem", O_RDWR);
mmap(0,64000,PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,MAP_SHARED|MAP_FIXED,fd,0xB8000);
:) ^ ^^^^^^^^^
- Chris
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