oops, corrupted memory again!

Jan Steinman jans at tekecs.UUCP
Wed Apr 30 03:25:10 AEST 1986


In article <763 at bentley.UUCP> kwh at bentley.UUCP (KW Heuer) writes:
>Now, if only somebody would invent an architecture where all objects,
>including dynamicly allocated objects, are isolated in memory, then any
>subscript error would cause an immediate memory fault.  You'd still be
>vulnerable to completely wild pointers (but less likely in a huge address
>space), and overflow of an array inside a structure might be untrappable,
>but otherwise it sounds like a great machine to do your debugging on.
>
Sounds suspiciously like the Smalltalk virtual machine to me!

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