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Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 14:57:50 +0200
From: Diego Zuccato <dz AT bo DOT dada DOT it>
Organization: CyberSpace Software Labs BBS
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To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Debugging options
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Hello All.

Yesterday night I thought : "why can't DJGPP use a different 'segment'
for each malloc()/new to allow bounds checking ?".
Since I never saw it implemented, I don't know if it could be possible.
This way, if someone try to access memory never allocated, he gets a
SIGSEGV. Same technique could be used to catch writing attempts to a
NULL ptr.

Well, I really don't know much about 386 protected mode, but if it's not
possible, could you explain me why ?

Tks,
 Diego.