On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 17:04, Christopher Sawtell wrote:

> Neither your ubiquitous *86* machines nor, to my knowledge, any other computer 
> chipset found in the current crop of personal machines is able to produce a 
> hardware segfault on array bound errors or, stack protection errors, i.e. 
> underflow, overflow or execution of code on the stack.

Actually, the 386+ *does* have the ability to do this.
http://www.midpec.com/djgpp/protmode/index1_2.html

Whether you want the compiler to generate segments for each of your data
structures is another matter.

Rex

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