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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Amiga OS *IS* state of the art
Keywords: Amiga OS
Message-ID: <1030@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 2 Apr 91 07:47:59 GMT
References: <1003@cbmger.UUCP> <7827@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> <8806@gollum.twg.com>
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Organization: Commodore Bueromaschinen GmbH, West Germany
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In article <8806@gollum.twg.com> david@twg.com (David S. Herron) writes:
>	  (Aside, there's
>	a developer tool I've heard about which adds memory
>	protection as an aid for finding things like wild/NULL
>	pointers).

No, not quite. It's only a tool to INDICATE memory violations, it
doesn't prevent them. But it's for developers, and thus they can
look through their own code and eliminate those parts that had run
wild, or better correct them.

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