Dereferencing NULL pointers - (nf)

rpw3 at fortune.UUCP rpw3 at fortune.UUCP
Sat Dec 17 19:06:08 AEST 1983


#R:rlgvax:-142700:fortune:11600028:000:489
fortune!rpw3    Dec 17 00:25:00 1983

The Fortune 32:16 has has a segment-based MMU, and in user mode the
first location of the text-seg is 0, so deref'd NULL is whatever the
beginning of the text is (usually crt.0). But if the program is "split
I/D", i.e. shared text, the first location of the DATA seg is 0x200000,
which is amusing to some old programs.

Rob Warnock

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