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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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To: "Gurunandan R. Bhat" <grbhat AT unigoa DOT ernet DOT in>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:52:19 +0000
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Subject: Re: Null page Protection
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"Gurunandan R. Bhat" <grbhat AT unigoa DOT ernet DOT in> wrote:

> 	I would like to know:
> 	In what situations is Null page protection used, and why?

Derreferencing a NULL pointer is normally a bug in your code. The most common 
situation is the use of unitialized pointers. So the NULL page protection is 
a debugging tool.

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