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From: jans@tekecs.UUCP (Jan Steinman)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c,net.lang.c++
Subject: Re: oops, corrupted memory again!
Message-ID: <7232@tekecs.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 29-Apr-86 13:25:10 EDT
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Posted: Tue Apr 29 13:25:10 1986
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References: <4495@cbrma.UUCP> <763@bentley.UUCP>
Reply-To: jans@tekecs.UUCP (Jan Steinman)
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In article <763@bentley.UUCP> kwh@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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