Re: How is NULL pointer dereference handled inside kernel?

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Mandeep Sandhu wrote:

| I wonder how uCLinux handles such cases???

It doesn't. Without an MMU there are a lot of things which you simply
can't do unless your hardware provides some extra assistance. Whether
that assistance is simply in the form of returning an error such as a
Machine Check on access to the physical zero page or whatever.

Jon.
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