From: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: How assign to NULL POINTER
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 23:28:37 -0800
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To: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Erik Max Francis wrote:
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > What is your DPMI host?  If it's not CWSDPMI or 386Max, then you lose:
> > all of the rest don't disallow null pointer dereference, but rather let
> > you get away with it.
> 
> You're kidding.

Nope.  It's a DPMI 1.0 feature only, and most DPMI hosts (Windoze
included) don't bother to implement anything more than 0.9.  CWSDPMI
included it for several reasons that I don't quite remember at present,
but the gist of it is that if you want to catch NULL dereferences, you
MUST run using cwsdpmi or 386Max.

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