"Lee Martineau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:45452@palm-dev-forum...
>
> How does a real Palm detect (invalid) write accesses to the storage
heap
> via a direct pointer?
>
> Poser of course can detect this, but there is no MMU on the EZ/VZ, is
> there?
There is no MMU, but there is a memory protection unit in the memory
controller. This can be set to write protect a region of memory -- all
Palm memory is write protected except for the small window opened for
the stack and dynamic heap.
See the Dragonball EZ and VZ specification books.
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Ben Combee, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Techwood Broadcasting Foundation, Austin Bureau
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