Re: Capabilities

[Beau Kuiper]

About user-program protection:

Why is this discussion continuing. Most programs are forever playing with
memory and pointers because C works like that. To locate and verify
every memory reference that a C program makes is simply stupid for the
following reasons:

        1) The code to do it will be unportable and complex, difficult to
            maintain, in assembly and most likely buggy too. This should
            be enough reason to scrap this idea.
        2) It will be slow. Not your regular slow, not even windows 3.0
            slow, I mean really, really SLOW! The performace hit may
            not be very noticable on a Pentium, but it will sure hurt the 
            target processor, the 8088/8086

Beau Kuiper
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