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From: mike.irons@lynx.northeastern.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Idea for sep. data & stack segs.
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Date: 4 Jun 91 14:00:53 GMT
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	I just had an idea that would allow (I think) seperate segments for the
stack and data segments on Intel x86 (x >= 2). Have seperate, OVERLAPPING s
segments. With this the pointers to the stack and data would be for different
selectors, but the descriptors would address the same space. With this the stack 
segment  'top' could be used to detect stack over-runs.

	How hard, if workable, would this be?

					mike.irons@lynx.northeastern.edu
				
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