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From: Valentin.Pepelea@JADE.BERKELEY.EDU
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Subject: stack checking
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Date: 27 Jul 89 04:39:54 GMT
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In article <2105@hub.UUCP> dougp@voodoo.ucsb.edu writes:

>
>    Is there any particular reasor that no microprocessor has limit
> registors for the stack?

How told you that? Actually, since this is a typical MMU function, indeed
the 68851 PMMU as well as the 68030 and 68040 let you put limit restraints
on addresses you wish to access. And they do it quite nicely too.

Valentin
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