Messages in this thread | | | From | John Bradford <> | Subject | Re: Minutes from Feb 21 LSE Call | Date | Sun, 23 Feb 2003 21:15:09 +0000 (GMT) |
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> >If I didn't know this mattered I wouldn't bother with the barfbags. > >I just wouldn't deal with it. > > Why? > > The x86 is a hell of a lot nicer than the ppc32, for example. On the > x86, you get good performance and you can ignore the design mistakes (ie > segmentation) by just basically turning them off.
I could be wrong, but I always thought that Sparc, and a lot of other architectures could mark arbitrary areas of memory, (such as the stack), as non-executable, whereas x86 only lets you have one non-executable segment.
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