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Subject: Re: catering to bad code
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Date: Sun, 22-Feb-87 18:53:00 EST
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Nf-From: ccvaxa.UUCP!aglew    Feb 22 17:53:00 1987


...> Null pointer dereferencing - catering to VAXisms in new machines

Gould's "prot" approach, optionally ignoring, logging, or coredumping
protection violations (low memory) has its advantages for running
binary only 3rd party code.

But, if you use it, make it optional per process, not global
per system.

Andy "Krazy" Glew. Gould CSD-Urbana.    USEnet:  ihnp4!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!aglew
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