Re: How is NULL pointer dereference handled inside kernel?

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Kishore A K wrote:
| Hi,
|
| I Dont exactly know how it does it. But then these
| systems must have some method (exception) of
| telling the kernel that the address on the bus is invalid.
|

Why?

| On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 16:26:16 +0530, Mandeep Sandhu
| <mandeep_sandhu@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
|
|>
|>but what happens on MMU-less systems where evry address is directly
|>mapped to phy. addr.?
|>

Nothing, I imagine. NULL pointer accesses will not be caught.


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